Nicola Capocci
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Nicola 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[4]. He was in Spain as bishop of Urgel, 1348-1351[5].
He acted as papal legate in France, attempting to broker a peace with the English. In 1356 he was there with Élie Talleyrand de Perigord, just ahead of the battle of Poitiers[6]. He quarreled with Talleyrand, later that year, and operated independently from Paris[7]. He was in England in June 1357, back again with Talleyrand[8]. By mid-1358 the legates and Pope Innocent VI had despaired of an effective treaty[9]: the complete failure of the longest papal peacemaking mission of the fourteenth century[10].
[edit] Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ [3] for a list including him;[4], in Dutch, referred to as Nicolaas de Caputio.
- ^ [5], [6],
- ^ Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War II (1999), p. 231.
- ^ Sumption, p. 263.
- ^ Sumption, p. 290.
- ^ Sumption, p. 374.
- ^ Sumption, p. 385.
