Rinaldo Orsini (died 6 June 1374) was an Italian prelate during the
Avignon Papacy. Born in the 1290s, he was a nephew of Cardinal
Napoleone Orsini
Napoleone Orsini (c. 1420 – September 1480) was an Italian condottiero.
The son of Orso Orsini of Bracciano, he fought for Pope Eugene IV against Francesco Sforza in 1443. Later, in the 1450s, he flanked Ferdinand of Aragon in the struggl ...
. He was appointed to succeed his uncle as the
cardinal deacon of
Sant'Adriano al Foro
Sant'Adriano al Foro was a church in Rome, formerly in the Curia Julia in the '' Forum Romanum'' and a cardinal-deaconry (a titular church for a Cardinal-deacon).
The church
The Church of Sant'Adriano al Foro (Italian for St. (H)Adrian at ...
by
Pope Clement VI on 17 December 1350. He held nonresident ecclesiastical posts in Italy, Spain, the Low Countries and England, where he was the
archdeacon of Leicester
The Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominati ...
for three months in 1346–1347 and later
dean of Salisbury. He died during an epidemic at
Avignon
Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So ...
.
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1290s births
1374 deaths
Orsini family
Archdeacons of Leicester
Deans of Salisbury
Cardinal-deacons
14th-century Italian cardinals