Niccolò Capocci[1] (died 1368) was an Italian Cardinal.[2]
He studied law at the University of Perugia; later, in 1362, he founded there the Collegium Gregorianum (later called the Sapienza vecchia).[3]
He was proposed as bishop of Utrecht in 1341, but the appointment in a situation of conflict lasted only a year. He was in Spain as bishop of Urgel, 1348–1351.[citation needed]
He acted as papal legate in France, attempting to broker a peace with the English. In 1356 he was there with Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, just ahead of the battle of Poitiers.[4] He quarreled with Talleyrand, later that year, and operated independently from Paris.[5] He was in England in June 1357, back again with Talleyrand.[6] By mid-1358 the legates and Pope Innocent VI had despaired of an effective treaty:[7] the complete failure of the longest papal peacemaking mission of the fourteenth century.[8]
Notes edit
- ^ Nicola Capocci, Niccola Capocci, Niccolo Capocci, Niccolò dei Capocci, Nicolò Capocci, Niccolà di Capoccia, Nicolas Capucci, Nicholas de Caputio.
- ^ From 1350, with the title of San Vitale [1]; from 1361 as bishop of Frascati[2].
- ^ Key to Umbria: City Walks – Sapienza Vecchia
- ^ Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War II (1999), p. 231.
- ^ Sumption, p. 263.
- ^ Sumption, p. 290.
- ^ Sumption, p. 374.
- ^ Sumption, p. 385.
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