Angelo II Acciaioli (15 April 1349 - 31 May 1408) was an

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Biography

Born in

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, Angelo was elected Bishop of Rapolla in 1375, but in 1383 he was transferred to the see of Florence where he had been preceded by a previous family member many years before, Angelo Acciaioli. He was promoted to the cardinalate on 17 December 1384 by

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. He defended legality of the election of Urban VI and his successors against the claims of the antipopes

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and Benedict XIII. In the

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he was actively working on being elected to the papacy, but an anonymous narrative of the Conclave accuses him of simony (bribery), managing thereby to acquire six votes of the thirteen cardinals in the Conclave.Johannes J. J. Döllinger, ''Beiträge zur politischen, kirchlichen, und cultur- Geschichte der sechs letzten Jahrhunderte'' III. Band (Regensburg: Georg Joseph Manz 1882), pp. 361-362: "Conclave, quo Bonifacius IX. papa creatus est". He was legate of

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in the

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in 1390 and in

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in 1403. As papal legate, Angelo crowned king

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in Gaeta on 29 May 1390. He reformed the Benedictine monastery S. Paolo fuori le mura in Rome and participated in the

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. Newly elected

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named him archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican Basilica (shortly after 4 December 1404), Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia e Velletri (12 June 1405),

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(12 June 1405), and finally

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(on 29 August 1405). He presided over the papal conclave, 1406. He died in

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at the age of 59. His remains were transferred to the Carthusian monastery in Florence. In January 1394, King Ladislaus of Naples named him as his ''

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'' and vicar-general for the

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and Lepanto. At the same time, he received the position of

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References

Sources

* *''The Florentine church'', Archbishop Curia, Florence 1970. * * *Curzio Ugurgieri della Berardenga, ''Gli Acciaioli di Firenze nella Luce de' Loro Tempi'', Leo Olschki, 1962. *Martin Souchon: ''Die Papstwahlen in der Zeit des grossen Schismas'', Verlag von Benno Goeritz, 1888

Acknowledgment

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Acciaioli, Angelo 1349 births 1408 deaths 14th-century people from the Principality of Achaea 15th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops 15th-century Italian cardinals Angelo 2 Bishops appointed by Pope Gregory XI Bishops appointed by Pope Urban VI Cardinal-bishops of Ostia Clergy from Florence Deans of the College of Cardinals Diplomats for the Holy See Latin archbishops of Patras