Lorenzo Strozzi
Lorenzo Strozzi | |
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Lorenzo Strozzi | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 3 December 1523 Florence, Italy |
| Died | 14 December 1571 (aged 48) Avignon, France |
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| Education | University of Padua |
| Relatives | Strozzi family House of Medici |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Catholic |
| Consecration | 8 June 1550 |
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| Based in | France |
Lorenzo Strozzi (3 December 1523 – 14 December 1571) was an Italian abbot and cardinal. He was the son of Filippo Strozzi, a member of the powerful Strozzi family of Florence, and Clarice de' Medici.[1]
Early life
Lorenzo Strozzi was born in Florence, the son of Filippo Strozzi and Clarice de' Medici, niece of Pope Leo X and aunt of Catherine de Medicis.[2] He attended University of Padua to study law. As part of the French Army, he fought Calvinists in Languedoc under Henry II.[1]
Church
His cousin Queen Catherine de' Medici convinced him to join the church. His ecclesiastical career developed in France, first as abbot of Saint-Victor in Marseille (which he renounced in 1561), later as abbot of Villar San Costanzo at Staffarda.
He was then nominated bishop of Béziers by King Henry II of France, and confirmed by Pope Paul III in the papal consistory of 7 December 1547. He replaced Bishop-elect François Gouffier, who had resigned on 5 December. Strozzi was only 24 years old.[3] He took possession of the diocese on 27 February 1548, and, in 1551, he appointed as Administrator of the diocese the abbot of Villelongue, Pierre de Puimisson. Strozzi, however, was not consecrated a bishop until 8 June 1555. He was named a councilor of Henry II on the same day, and took part in a session of Parlement presided over by the king on 2 July 1555.[4]
He was made a cardinal by Pope Paul IV in the consistory of 15 March 1557, with the title of Santa Balbina.[5]
Later, he was named archbishop of Albi in the papal consistory of 1561. He was nominated archbishop of Aix-en-Provence by King Charles IX, and confirmed on 6 February 1568, by Pope Pius V. He was granted the pallium on 11 April 1568.[6] and archbishop of Siena from 1568.
Later life
He died at Avignon in 1571.[1]
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References
- ^ a b c Miranda, Salvador. "3. STROZZI, Lorenzo (1523-1571)". Florida International University. Archived from the original on 2014-10-23.
- ^ Albanès, Gallia christiana novissima, p. 121. Fisquet, p. 168.
- ^ Eubel, Hierarchia catholica III, p. 135.
- ^ Fisquet, p. 169.
- ^ Eubel Hierarchia catholica III, p. 35, no. 11.
- ^ Albanès, pp. 121-122. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica III, p. 112 with note 8.
Sources
- Albanés, Joseph Hyacinthe; Fillet, Louis; Chevalier Ulysse (1899). Gallia christiana novissima: Aix, Apt, Fréjus, Gap, Riez et Sisteron. (in French and Latin). Montbéliard: Société anonyme d'imprimerie montbéliardaise. pp. 121–123.
- Eubel, Conradus; Gulik, Guilelmus, eds. (1923). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.. Archived.
- Fisquet, Honoré (1864). La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana): Beziers, Lodève, Saint-Pons de Thomières (in French). Paris: Etienne Repos. pp. 168–174.