Giacomo Cavalieri

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Giacomo Cardinal Cavalieri †
Church positions
See Datary of His Holiness
Title Cardinal priest of Sant'Eusebio
Period in office September 15, 1623January 28, 1629
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Created cardinal January 19, 1626
Personal
Date of birth 1565
Place of birth Rome, Italy
Date of death January 28, 1629
Place of death Tivoli, Italy

Giacomo Cardinal Cavalieri was born in Rome in 1565 to Giacomo Cavalieri and Diana Santori, related to the Borghese and Paluzzi Albertoni families.He became referendary of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature in the Roman Curia and governor of Faenza and Città di Castello and auditor of the Sacred Roman Rota.On September 15, 1623 he was appointed datary of His Holiness.
Pope Urban VIII created him cardinal priest in the consistory of January 19, 1626 and opted for the title of Sant'Eusebio on February 9, 1626.He died on January 28, 1629 in Tivoli.

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