Francesco Condulmer (1390 – 30 October 1453) was a cardinal of the

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He was made cardinal on 19 September 1431 by his uncle, Pope Eugenius IV, and accumulated many offices and dignities. He was Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church (1432–40), administrator of

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(1433–36) and

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(1436–37). He was Archbishop of Besançon (1437–38) and Archbishop of Verona (1438–53),

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(1437–53), Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1438–53), and bishop of the suburbicarian see of Porto (1445–53). He was sometimes referred to as the Cardinal of Venice. As papal legate in

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(1438) he was deeply involved in preparing for union with

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. He served also as supreme commander of the papal fleet (1444 and 1445–46) engaged in combat with the fleet of the

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in the

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. He participated in the

Papal conclave, 1447 The 1447 papal conclave (March 4–6), meeting in the Roman basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, elected Pope Nicholas V (Parentucelli) to succeed Pope Eugene IV (Condulmer). Balloting Eugene IV had died on February 23, 1447. The cardinals en ...

. He may have become

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in January 1451.He was the most senior cardinal-bishop residing in Roman Curia He died at the age of 63.

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