Italian cardinal
Antonio Sanseverino (died 1543) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.
Biography
Antonio Sanseverino was born in Naples ca. 1477, the son of Giovanni Antonio Sanseverino, a Neapolitan patrician, and Enrichetta Carafa.[1]
Early in his career, he joined the Knights Hospitaller.[1] Pope Leo X made him a cardinal while he was still a layman.[1] However the promotion was contingent on certain conditions that Sanseverino never complied with, so his elevation to the cardinalate was never published and neither Pope Leo X nor Pope Adrian VI ever recognized him as a cardinal.[1]
Pope Clement VII made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of 21 November 1527.[1] He received the red hat and the titular church of Santa Susanna from Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio in the Castel Sant'Angelo on 27 April 1528.[1] He received the tonsure from Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.[1]
On 31 August 1528 he was elected Archbishop of Taranto.[1] He occupied that see until his death.[1] He was the administrator of the see of Conversano from 28 July 1529 to 11 February 1534.[1] He was the Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 24 January 1530 to 18 January 1531. He opted for the titular church of Sant'Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine on 16 May 1530.[1] He was consecrated as a bishop by Pope Clement VII in the Sistine Chapel on 21 December 1531.[1] On 5 September 1534 he opted for the titular church of Santa Maria in Trastevere.[1]
He participated in the papal conclave of 1534 that elected Pope Paul III.[1]
He was the cardinal protector of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, in which capacity he resisted proposals to merge the order with the Friars Minor Observants.[1]
On 28 November 1537 he opted for the order of cardinal bishops and received the suburbicarian see of Palestrina.[1] He was the papal legate (along with Cardinals Lorenzo Campeggio, Giacomo Simoneta, and Giralomo Aleandro) to the general council held at Mantua then at Vicenza.[1]
On 4 August 1539 he opted for the suburbicarian see of Sabina; then, on 8 January 1543, for the suburbicarian see of Porto e Santa Rufina.[1] He was Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals.[1]
He died in Rome on night of 17-18 August 1543.[1] He is buried in Trinità dei Monti.[1]
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