Nicola Capocci (died 1368) was an Italian

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. He studied law at the

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; later, in 1362, he founded there the Collegium Gregorianum (later called the Sapienza vecchia). He was proposed as bishop of Utrecht in 1341, but the appointment in a situation of conflict lasted only a year. He was in Spain as

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, 1348–1351. He acted as

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in France, attempting to broker a peace with the English. In 1356 he was there with Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, just ahead of the

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. He quarreled with Talleyrand, later that year, and operated independently from Paris. He was in England in June 1357, back again with Talleyrand. By mid-1358 the legates and

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had despaired of an effective treaty: the ''complete failure of the longest papal peacemaking mission of the fourteenth century''.Sumption, p. 385.

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1368 deaths 14th-century Italian cardinals University of Perugia alumni Cardinal-bishops of Frascati 14th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops Year of birth unknown {{Italy-reli-bio-stub