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3 unusual facts about Lorenzo Campeggio


Cardinals created by Leo X

# Lorenzo Campeggio, bishop-elect of Feltre – cardinal-priest of S. Tommaso in Parione (received the title on 24 January 1518), then cardinal-priest of S. Anastasia (1520?), cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere (27 April 1528), cardinal-bishop of Albano (5 September 1534), cardinal-bishop of Palestrina (26 February 1535), cardinal-bishop of Sabina (28 November 1537), † 19 July 1539

Johann Cochlaeus

Cochlaeus accompanied Lorenzo Campeggio, the papal nuncio in Holy Roman Empire, to the Convention of Regensburg as interpreter and member of the commission which discussed the reform of the clergy.

Lorenzo Campeggio

Charles later (2 September 1530) gave Campeggio the Spanish bishopric of Huesca and Jaca, which he held until 17 June 1534 when he became bishop of Candia (Crete) (until 1536); in 1532, moreover, when making Campeggio's son Gianbattista bishop of Majorca, the emperor reserved the administration of the see to the young man's father.



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