Nicola Capocci

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 Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, 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].

Notes

1. ^ Niccola Capocci, Niccolo Capocci, Niccolò dei Capocci, Nicolò Capocci, Niccolà di Capoccia, Nicolas Capucci, Nicholas de Caputio.
2. ^ From 1350, with the title of San Vitale [1]; from 1361 as bishop of Frascati[2].
3. ^ Key to Umbria: City Walks - Sapienza Vecchia
4. ^ [3] for a list including him;[4], in Dutch, referred to as Nicolaas de Caputio.
5. ^ [5], [6],
6. ^ Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War II (1999), p. 231.
7. ^ Sumption, p. 263.
8. ^ Sumption, p. 290.
9. ^ Sumption, p. 374.
10. ^ Sumption, p. 385.