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Lorenzo Campeggio

Italian cardinal and politician

Summary

Italian cardinal and politician

Field	Value
type	cardinal
honorific-prefix	His Eminence
name	Lorenzo Campeggio
title	Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Cardinal protector of England
image	Lorenzo Campeggio.jpg
alt	Lorenzo Campeggio
diocese	Sabina
appointed	28 November 1537
term_end	19 July 1539
predecessor	Bonifacio Ferrero
successor	Antonio Sanseverino
other_post
consecration	6 April 1518
cardinal	1 July 1517
created_cardinal_by	Leo X
rank
birth_date	7 November 1474
birth_place	Milan, Duchy of Milan
death_date	19 July 1539 (aged 64)
death_place	Rome, Papal States
buried
parents	Giovanni Zaccaria Campeggio and Dorotea Tebaldini
spouse	Francesca Guastavillani
children	5
previous_post	Bishop of Feltre (15121520)

| honorific-prefix = His Eminence | honorific-suffix = Cardinal protector of England Lorenzo Campeggio (7 November 1474 – 19 July 1539) was an Italian cardinal and politician. He was the last cardinal protector of England.

Life

Campeggio was born in Milan to a noble family, the eldest of five sons.

Campeggio initially intended to pursue a career in law, obtaining his degree in 1499. In 1510, following the death of his wife, Campeggio began to serve the Catholic Church.

In 1511 and from 1513 to 1517, Campeggio served as nuncio on two separate occasions to Maximilian I. In 1517, during his second period as nuncio to Maximilian I, Leo X made him a cardinal.

On 22 January 1523, Campeggio was appointed cardinal–protector of England. While in England, Campeggio was tasked with convincing Henry VIII to pledge his support to a planned crusade against Selim I that was envisioned by Leo X. In 1528, Campeggio returned to England in order to hear the case for divorce between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Due to the mental duress and his affliction with gout, this period of time was particularly unpleasant for Campeggio.

Campeggio wrote his De depravato statu ecclesiae for Adrian VI, which proposed radical reforms for the papal bureaucracy.

References

{{Cite DNB. Gairdner. James. ()
"England Under The Tudors: Cardinal Campeggio. Biography of Lorenzo Campeggio (1464-1532)".
"Lorenzo Campeggio {{!}} Pope, Papal Legate, Diplomat {{!}} Britannica".
{{Cite EB1911. Hayes. Carlton J. H.
Walser, Isabella. (2015-07-29). "Lorenzo Campeggis Promemoria ad Hadrianum Papam VI. de depravato statu Romanae Ecclesiae (1522) im religions-, gattungs- und literaturgeschichtlichen Kontext". Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte.

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