Cardinal-nephew http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal-nephew A cardinal-nephew (Latin: cardinalis nepos;[1] Italian: cardinale nipote;[2] Spanish: valido de su tío; French: le prince de la fortune)[3] is a cardinal elevated by a pope who is his uncle, or more generally, his relative. The practice of creating cardinal-nephews originated in the Middle Ages, and reached its apex during the 16th and 17th centuries,[4] and is central to the etymology of the word NEPOTISM, which appeared in the English language circa 1670.[5] From the middle of the Avignon Papacy (13091377) until Pope Innocent XII's anti-NEPOTISM bull, Romanum decet pontificem (1692), a pope without a cardinal-nephew was the exception to the rule.[6] Every Renaissance pope who created cardinals appointed a relative to the College of Cardinals, and the nephew was the most common choice.[7] The institution of the cardinal-nephew evolved over seven centuries, tracking developments in the history of the Papacy and the styles of individual popes. From 1566 until 1692, a cardinal-nephew held the curial office of the Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical State, known as the Cardinal Nephew, and thus the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. The curial office of the Cardinal Nephew as well as the institution of the cardinal-nephew declined as the power of the Cardinal Secretary of State increased and the temporal power of popes decreased in the 17th and 18th centuries. Notable cardinal-nephews include fourteen popesJohn XIX, Benedict IX, Anastasius IV, Gregory IX, Alexander IV, Adrian V, Gregory XI, Boniface IX, Eugene IV, Paul II, Alexander VI, Pius III, Julius II, and Clement VIIand two saintsCharles Borromeo and Anselm of Lucca. History Before 1566 The creation of cardinal-nephews predates the hierarchical preeminence of cardinals within the Roman Catholic Church, which grew out of the 1059 decree of Pope Nicholas II, In Nomine Domini, establishing cardinal-bishops as the sole electors of the pope, with the consent of cardinal-deacons and cardinal-priests.[8] The first known cardinal nephew is Lotario (or Loctarius), seniore, cousin of Pope Benedict VIII (10121024), elecated circa 1015.[9] Benedict VIII also elevated his brother Giovanni (future Pope John XIX) and his cousin Teofilatto (future Pope Benedict IX) as cardinal deacons.[9] The first known cardinal-nephew after 1059 is Anselm of Lucca, the nephew or brother of Pope Alexander II (10611073).[9] According to historian John Bargrave, "by the Council of Bazill, Session 21, the number of Cardinals was not to be above 24, and not any nephew of the Pope or of any Cardinal was to be of that number. (Session 23.)"[10] Pope Clement VI (13421352) created more cardinal-nephews than any other pontiff, including five on September 20, 1342, the greatest number of cardinal-nephews elevated at one time. The capituation of the 1464 papal conclave limited the pope it elected (Pope Paul II) to appointing only one cardinal-nephew, along with other conditions designed to increase the power of the College of Cardinals and reduce the pope's ability to dilute that power.[11] The Fifth Council of the Lateran declared in 1514 that the care of relatives was to be commended, and the creation of cardinal-nephews was often recommended or justified based on the need to care for indigent family members.[12] A cardinal-nephew could usually expect profitable appointments; for example, Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, cardinal-nephew of Pope Paul III (15341549) held sixty-four benefices simultaneously in addition to the vice-chancellorship.[13] Pope Paul IV (15551559), in his old age, was said to have "fallen almost completely under the cardinal-nephew's influence";[14] Paul IV's cardinal-nephew, Carlo Carafa, was accused in August 1558 by a Theatine of seducing a Roman noble woman, Plautila de' Massimi, who had come into possession of an inordinate amount of money and jewelry, but the accusations were dismissed by the pontiff.[15] St. Charles Borromeo, cardinal-nephew of Pope Pius IV (15591565), had ensured the subordination of the secretarius intimus to the Cardinal Nephew, which became sometimes called the secretarius maior.[16] Pius IV was notorious for NEPOTISM: between 1561 and 1565 he transferred more than 350,000 scudi to his relatives.[17] The Cardinal Nephew: 15661692 Following the end of the Council of Trent (1563), Pope Pius V drew up the terms the office of the Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical State, who was to handle the temporal affairs of the Papal States and the foreign relations of the Holy See. After abortively attempting to divide the duties of the Superintendent between four non-familial cardinals, Pius V acceded to the urgings of the College of Cardinals and his Spanish ambassador, Pius V appointed his grand-nephew, Michele Bonelli, as Superintendent, demarcating his duties with a papal bull of March 14, 1566.[18] The Cardinal Nephew (also called cardinale padrone[18] or Secretarius Papae et superintendens status ecclesiasticæ:[19] "Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical State",[18] Italian: Sopraintendent dello Stato Ecclesiastico[12]) was an official legate of the Roman Curia, approximately equivalent to the Cardinal Secretary of State, which absorbed its functions after the Cardinal Nephew was abolished in 1692.[19][20] The office has been equated by historians as the "prime minister", "alter ego",[18] or "vice-pope".[21] The Cardinal Nephew was generally among a pope's first cardinal creations, and his creature was traditionally accompanied by a salute from the guns of Castel Sant'Angelo.[22] Following the Avignon Papacy, the Cardinal Nephew was responsible for the spiritual and temporal governance of the Comtat Venaissin, where the Avignon popes had resided; in 1475, Pope Sixtus IV raised the Diocese of Avignon to the rank of an archbishopric, to the benefit of his nephew Giuliano della Rovere.[20] The terms of the office of Cardinal Nephew were established by a papal brief developed and refined by popes Pius V (15661572) to Paul V (16051621).[18] Pius V was the first to name his cardinal-nephew, Michele Bonelli, explicitly as the "Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical State", although he relentlessly avoided delegating any real autonomy to Bonelli.[23] The Cardinal Nephew was also the correspondence liaison for all papal nuncios and gubernatorial legates, and the prefect for two congregations: the Consulta and the Congregazione del Buon Governo.[12] The Cardinal Nephew was also the captain-general of the papal army and a "channel through which flowed benefices one way and gold the other".[22] However, these formal functions only came into force during the pontificates of unusually weak popes; most Cardinal Nephews were the de facto rubber stamp of the pontiff himself.[12] Although Pope Leo XI (1605) died before he was able to elevate his nephew, Roberto Ubaldini, Ubaldini was elevated by Leo XI's successor, Pope Paul V in 1615.[24] Some historians consider Scipione Borghese, cardinal-nephew to Pope Paul V, to be the "prototypical representative" of a cardinal-nephew, unlike those before him, created to "provide for and oversee the permanent social and economic ascent of the reigning papal family into the ranks of the high Roman aristocracy".[25] For example, in 1616, twenty-four of the thirty abbeys belonging to Borghese were rented out, a practice the Council of Trent had attempted to eliminate.[17] A thorough financial analysis of Borghese's cardinalate by Reinhard Volcker based on a series of extant account books examines the strategies Borghese used to build up wealth during his uncle's pontificate and non-ecclesiastical assets before his uncle's death, which Volcker considers to be exemplary of Baroque papal families.[26] Pope Gregory XIV (15901591) began the practice of creating cardinal-nephews whose formal appointment coincided de facto with their nomination, and was thus separate from the ordinal process for creating cardinals,[24] and upon falling ill, authorized his cardinal-nephew, Paolo Emilio Sfondrato, to use the Fiat ut petitur, a power which was later diminished at the urging of the College.[27] Paul VI issued a motu proprio on April 30, 1618, formally bestowing on his cardinal-nephew the same authority Pope Clement VIII had given to Pietro Aldobrandini, beginning what historian Laurain-Portemer calls "l'age classique'" of NEPOTISM.[28] Pope Gregory XV's (16211623) cardinal-nephew, Ludovico Ludovisi, the first cardinal-nephew known as il cardinale padrone ("the Cardinal boss")[29] accumulated a vast array of benefices: the bishopric of Bologna, twenty-three abbeys, the directorship of the Apostolic Signatura, as well as the offices of the vice-chancellor and high-chamberlain, and was able to have most of them redistributed to seventeen of his kinsmen upon his death.[21] These benefices and offices netted Ludovisi more than 200,000 scudi annually, and he is considered to have exercised "more unlimited authority" than any previous cardinal-nephew.[30] Notably, cardinal-nephews were allowed to create facultas testandi to will the fruits of their benefices to secular family members.[21] Not all Cardinal Nephews were cardinal-nephews in the strictest sense. In fact, papal historian Valérie Pirie considers not having a nephew a "tremendous asset for a would-be pope" as it left the position open for an ally cardinal.[22] For example, Pope Clement X gave the office to Cardinal Paoluzzi-Altieri, whose nephew had recently married Laura Caterina Altieri, the sole heiress of Clement X's family.[32] Many historians consider Olimpia Maidalchini, the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X (16441655), to have been a de facto Cardinal Nephew; the position was formally held by her son, Camillo Pamphilj, (after Pamphilj renounced his cardinalate in order to wed) her nephew, Francesco Maidalchini, and (after Francesco proved incompetent) Camillo Astalli, her cousin.[33][34] According to papal historian Ludwig von Pastor, "the misfortune of Pope Pamphilj was that the only person in his family who would have had the qualities necessary to fill such a position was a woman".[34] Pope Innocent XI (16761689) despised the practice and only accepted his election as pope after the College of Cardinals consented to his plans for reform, which included a ban on NEPOTISM.[4] However, Innocent XI backed down after thrice failing to achieve the support of the majority of his cardinals for a bull banning NEPOTISM,[35] which had been tediously composed between 1677 and 1686.[36] Innocent XI refused entreats from within the papal court to bring his only nephew, Livio Odescalchi, the prince of Sirmio, to Rome.[37] Innocent XI's successor, Pope Alexander VIII (16891691), was the last pope known to create a Cardinal Nephew.[4] Alexander VIII also undid another reform of Innocent XI by restoring the revenues of the former Chancery to the Vice-Chancellor, who was, at the time, his cardinal-nephew, Pietro Ottoboni.[19] Edith Standen, a consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, calls Ottoboni the "last and certainly not least magnificent example" of the "splendor of an extinct species, the Cardinal-Nephew".[38] Until 1692 (and sometimes thereafter), the cardinal-nephew (or a lay nephew) would be the chief archivist of the pope, usually taking the archives with him to a family archive upon the death of the pontiff.[39] In particular, the archival collections of the Barberini, Farnese, Chigi, and Borghese families contain important papal documents.[40] Since 1692 Pope Innocent XII (16911700) issued a papal bull on June 22, 1692, Romanum decet pontificem, banning the office of Cardinal Nephew, limiting his successors to elevating only one cardinal relative, eliminating various sinecures traditionally reserved for cardinal-nephews, and capping the stipend or endowment the nephew of a pope could receive to 12,000 scudi.[12][38][41] Romanum decet pontificem was later incorporated into the Code of Canon Law of 1917 in canons 240, 2; 1414, 4; and 1432, 1.[42] In 1694, Innocent XII's series of reforms was capped off with an expensive campaign to eliminate the "venality" of offices while reimbursing their current holders.[36] These reforms are viewed by some scholars as a delayed reaction to the financial crisis created by the NEPOTISM of Pope Urban VIII (16231644).[12] However, following Romanun decet pontificem, only three of the eight popes of the 18th century did not make a nephew or brother cardinal.[35] The College of Cardinals apparently preferred rule by nephews than by favoritism, which they perceived as the alternative; for example, the College urged Pope Benedict XIII (17241730) to appoint a cardinal-nephew, whom they hoped would replace Benedict XIII's notorious lieutenant Niccolò Coscia.[31] Pope Gregory XIII (15721585) also had to be urged by key figures in the College to appoint his cardinal-nephew: Filippo Boncompagni.[43] The cardinal-nephews of the 18th century declined in power as the power of the Cardinal Secretary of State increased.[31] The church of Pope Benedict XIII (17241730) is described by historian Eamon Duff as "all the evils of NEPOTISM without the nephew".[44] Neri Corini, cardinal-nephew of Pope Clement XII (17301740) was by far the most powerful cardinal-nephew of the 18th century, on account of his uncle's advanced age and blindness.[31] However, Clement XII's successor, Pope Benedict XIV (17401758) was described by Hugh Walpole as "a priest without indolence or interest, a prince without favorites, a pope without nephews".[44] Romualdo Braschi-Onesti, cardinal-nephew of Pius VI (17751799), was the penultimate cardinal-nephew. Despite Pius VI's lineage to the noble Cesana family, his only sister had married a man from the poor Onesti family. Therefore, he commissioned a geneaologist to discover (and trump up) some trace of nobility in the Onesti lineage, an endeavor which yielded only a circuitous connection to Saint Romualdo.[45] After the turbulent 1800 papal conclave, Pope Pius VII (18001823) shunned the institution of the cardinal-nephew and instead relied on his Cardinal Secretary of State, Ercole Cardinal Consalvi.[46] During the 19th century, the only nephew of a pope created cardinal was Gabriel della Genga Sermattei, nephew of Pope Leo XII, created cardinal by Pope Gregory XVI on February 1, 1836.[47] Although the institutionalization of NEPOTISM disappeared in the 18th century, "Pietas" (duty to family) remained a theme of papal administration into the 20th century, although rarely with the overt intervention of a papal uncle.[12] Following the example of Pius VI, popes Leo XIII (who elevated his brother, Giuseppe Pecci, cardinal on May 12, 1879) and Pius XII (19391958) weakened the formal curial bureaucracy in favor of a parallel government, in which family members often figured prominently.[12] The loss of temporal power over the Papal States (de facto in 1870 with the "Roman Question" and de jure in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty) also eliminated the structural conditions which had figured prominently in the family politics of earlier popes.[12] Role in conclaves Even into the 18th century, the cardinal-nephew was a natural power broker at the conclave following his uncle's death, as a figure whom cardinals desirous of continuing the status quo could rally around.[31] Instruzione al cardinal Padrone circa il modo come si dve procurare una fazione di cardinali con tutti i requisiti che deve avere per lo stabilimento della sua grandezza ("Instructions to the chief cardinal on how to create a faction of cardinals with all the requisites for the establishment of his grandeur"), discovered in the archive of the Santa Maria de Monserrato in Rome offers advice to cardinal-nephews for consolidating power within the College of Cardinals.[3] Another text, the Ricordi data da Gregorio XV al cardinale Lodovisio suo nipote ("Memoir addressed by Gregory XV to his Nephew Cardinal Lodovisio") offers advice for how to rise within the Curia.[48] An analysis of the five papal conclaves between 1605 and 1644 shows that cardinal-nephews were generally unsuccessful in electing their chosen candidates, although the victor was usually a cardinal created by the deceased pope.[49] Nine of the twenty-three cardinal electors in the 1492 papal conclave were cardinal-nephews.[50] Legacy NEPOTISM is a common feature in the history of governance, particularly in cultures where identity and loyalty are determined more at the level of the family than that of the nation-state.[51] The use of nephews, rather than direct descendents, is a product of the tradition of clerical celibacy within the Catholic Church, although hereditary descent from uncles to nephews is also seen in the patriarchate of the Assyrian Church of the East.[52] The creation of relatives and known-allies as cardinals was only one way in which medieval and Renaissance popes attempted to dillute the power of the College of Cardinals as an "ecclesiastical rival" and perpetuate their influence within the church after their death.[53] The institution of the cardinal-nephew had the effect both of enriching the pope's family with desirable benefices and of modernizing the administration of the papacy, by allowing the pontiff to rule through a proxy which was more easily deemed fallible when necessary and providing a formal distance between the person of the pontiff and the everydayness of pontifical affairs.[12] Gregorio Leti's Papal NEPOTISM, or the True Relation of the Reasons Which Impel the Popes to make their Nephews Powerful (1667) is one example of contemporary criticism of the institution of the cardinal-nephew; Leti holds the rare distinction of having all of his publications on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books").[54] The Catholic Encyclopedia defends the institution of the cardinal-nephew as a necessary countermeasure to the intrigue of the old Church.[19] Cardinal Secretary of State The curial office of Cardinal Secretary of State in many ways evolved from the roles formerly played by cardinal-nephews. From 1644 to 1692, the power of the Cardinal Secretary of State was essentially inversely proportional to that of the Cardinal Nephew, to whom the Secretariat was subordinate.[40] During some pontificates, for example that of Pope Pius V (15661572) and his nephew Michele Bonelli, the cardinal-nephew and secretary of state were one in the same.[55] Notes 1. ^ Cardinale, Hyginus Eugene. 1976. The Holy See and the International Order. Maclean-Hunter Press. p. 133. 2. ^ Burckhardt, Jacob, and Middlemore, Samuel George Chetwynd. 1892. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy. Sonnenschein. p. 107. 3. ^ a b Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 114. 4. ^ a b c Bunson, Matthew. 1995. "Cardinal Nephew". The Pope Encyclopedia. Crown Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 0-517-88256-6. 5. ^ Oxford English Dictionary. September 2003. "NEPOTISM" 6. ^ Pope Boniface IX, the second pope of the Western Schism, did not appoint cardinal-nephews. Until Pope Innocent XII, the only other exceptions were: Pope Innocent XI (who attempted to abolish the practice), popes who did not appoint cardinals (Pope Pius III, Pope Marcellus II, Pope Urban VII, Pope Leo XI), and Pope Adrian VI (who appointed one cardinal). 7. ^ Vidmar, John. 2005. The Catholic Church Through The Ages: A History. Paulist Press. ISBN 0809142341. p. 170. Vidmar gives the exception of Nicholas V, who elevated his half-brother Filippo Calandrini on December 20, 1448 (see: Salvator, 1998, "XV Century (14041503)"). 8. ^ Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Essay of a General List of Cardinals (112-2006)". 9. ^ a b c Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "General list of Cardinals: XI Century (9991099)". 10. ^ Bargrave, John. 1867. Pope Alexander the Seventh and the College of Cardinals. Camden Society. p. 3. 11. ^ Burke-Young, Francis A. 1998. "The election of Pope Paul II (1464)". 12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Reinhard, Wolfgang, Levillain, ed., 2002. "NEPOTISM", p. 10311033. 13. ^ Ekelund et al., 2004, p. 703. 14. ^ Setton, 1984, p. 639. 15. ^ Setton, 1984, p. 711. 16. ^ Chadwick, 1981, p. 289. 17. ^ a b Ekelund et al., 2004, p. 702. 18. ^ a b c d e Laurain-Portemer, Madeleine, Levillain, ed., 2002. "Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical State", p. 14671469. 19. ^ a b c d "Roman Curia" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia. 20. ^ a b "Avignon" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia. 21. ^ a b c Hsia, 2005, p. 102. 22. ^ a b c Pirie, Valérie. 1965. "The Triple Crown: An Account of the Papal Conclaves: Preliminary Chapter". Spring Books. 23. ^ Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 141. 24. ^ a b Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 144. 25. ^ Bireley, Robert. 2004. Book Review of Bürokratie und NEPOTISMus unter Paul V. (16051621): Studien zur frühneuzeitlichen Mikropolitik in Rom by Birgit Emich. The Catholic Historical Review. 90, 1: 127129. 26. ^ Osheim, Duane J. "Review of Kardinal Scipione Borghese, 16051633: Vermögen, Finanzen und sozialer Aufstieg eines Papstnepoten". The American Historical Review. 90, 4: 971972. 27. ^ Tizon-Germe, Anne-Cécile, Levillain, ed., 2002, "Gregory XIV", p. 666. 28. ^ Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 144145. 29. ^ Williams, 2004, p. 103. 30. ^ von Rankle, Leopold. 1848. The History of the Popes. p. 307. 31. ^ a b c d e f g Chadwick, 1981, p. 305. 32. ^ "Pope Clement X" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia. 33. ^ Chadwick, 1981, p. 303. 34. ^ a b Boutry, Philippe, Levillain, ed., 2002, "Innocent X", p. 801802. 35. ^ a b Chadwick, 1981, p. 304. 36. ^ a b Rosa, Mario, Levillain, ed., 2002, "Curia", p. 468. 37. ^ Fr. Jeffrey Keyes. "A YOUNG MAN IN THE ROME OF PIUS VII". p. 34. 38. ^ a b Standen, Edith A. 1981. "Tapestries for a Cardinal-Nephew: A Roman Set Illustrating Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 16: 147164. 39. ^ Hansman, Silvia. 1999, Spring. "The Vatican Secret Archives". Seminar on Records and Archives in Society. 40. ^ a b Chadwick, 1981, p. 299. 41. ^ Chadwick, 1981, p. 305. 42. ^ Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Guide to documents and events (762005)". 43. ^ Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 142. 44. ^ a b Wilcock, John. 2005. "Popes and Anti-Popes". 45. ^ Pirie, Valérie. 1965. "The Triple Crown: An Account of the Papal Conclaves: XVIIIth Century: PIUS VI (BRASCHI)". Spring Books. 46. ^ Pirie, Valérie. 1965. "The Triple Crown: An Account of the Papal Conclaves: XIXth Century". Spring Books. p. 305. 47. ^ Miranda, Salvador. 1998. "Consistory of February 1, 1836 (VIII)". 48. ^ Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 93. 49. ^ Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 121. 50. ^ Burke-Young, Francis A. 1998. "The election of Pope Alexander VI (1492)". 51. ^ Chadwick, 1981, p. 301. 52. ^ Chadwick, 1981, p. 302. 53. ^ Hsia, 2005, p. 103. 54. ^ Ambrosini, Maria Luisa, and Willis, Mary. 1996. The Secret Archives of the Vatican. Barnes & Noble Publishing. ISBN 0760701253. p. 138. 55. ^ Setton, 1984, p. 912.
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