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 ; from 1361 as bishop of Frascati.
  3. ↑ Key to Umbria: City Walks - Sapienza Vecchia
  4. ↑ for a list including him;, in Dutch, referred to as Nicolaas de Caputio.
  5. ↑ , ,
  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.