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Giovan Francesco Morosini (cardinal)

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Having returned to Italy from France in September 1589, he went to Rome where he was charged with not having excommunicated Henry III of France after the murders of the Cardinal of Guise and of the Duke of Guise by order of that king.
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published in French. He asked to the Pope to side with Henry III against the Duke of Guise, but this position was not supported by the Pope who more and more became displeased of his nuncio. In the events of the
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Still young, he accompanied a relative in France, Alvise Badoer, who had been appointed extraordinary ambassador to that kingdom on behalf of the
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on 30 September 1537. He was the son of the Venetian patricians Pietro Morosini and Cornelia Corner, sister of cardinals
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he tried to riconciliate the leaders of the Catholic League with Henry III. A few months later, the murders of
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after a secret consultation among the clergy of Venice, and this decision was confirmed by the new pope
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to pay homage to him on behalf of the Republic of Venice in the recent success of his obtaining the
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and of the Duke of Guise by order of Henry III marked the failure of his politic.
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Appointed protector of Germany and Hungary, he was a close friend of Saint
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16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Republic of Venice
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of that town. He left his goods to the hospital of Brescia.
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In the France scarred by the 57: 38: 518: 516: 429:on 14 January 1596 and was buried in the 308:, remaining there until the election of 254:Giovanni Francesco Morosini was born in 584: 441: 532:The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church 270:, committed suicide on 21 March 1570. 654:Ambassadors of the Republic of Venice 528:"MOROSINI, Gianfrancesco (1537-1596)" 479: 477: 475: 473: 471: 374:in trying to ally Henry III with the 34:Giovan Francesco Morosini (patriarch) 7: 491:Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 447: 445: 497:Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana 563:(in Italian). Venezia: G.B. Catani 296:In June 1573 Morosini was sent to 25: 454:"Gianfrancesco Cardinal Morosini" 312:. From 1582 to 1585 he served as 283:Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy 611: 599: 587: 536:Florida International University 347:on October 1585 in Venice. The 279:Charles II, Archduke of Austria 92: 649:16th-century Italian cardinals 425:and his supporter. He died in 355:by the hands of Cesare Costa, 1: 493:, Volume 77: Morlini–Natolini 486:"Morosini, Giovan Francesco" 266:. His father, member of the 664:Apostolic nuncios to France 397:Louis II, Cardinal of Guise 690: 364:Apostolic Nuncio in France 357:Apostolic Nuncio to Venice 244:Apostolic Nuncio in France 31: 362:Sixtus V sent him as his 222:Giovan Francesco Morosini 56: 48: 43:Giovan Francesco Morosini 456:. Catholic-Hierarchy.org 331:selected him as the new 659:Baili of Constantinople 557:Cosmi, Stefano (1676). 484:Bonora, Elena (2012). 408:Santi Nereo e Achilleo 380:Henry I, Duke of Guise 349:episcopal consecration 343:, and he was ordained 293:on 29 September 1570. 226:Gianfrancesco Morosini 214:Old Cathedral, Brescia 18:Gianfrancesco Morosini 393:Day of the Barricades 495:(in Italian). 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Index

Gianfrancesco Morosini
Giovan Francesco Morosini (patriarch)
Bishop of Brescia

Catholic Church
Brescia
Giovanni Delfino
Marino Zorzi
Cardinal Priest
Santa Maria in Via
Bishop
Pope Sixtus V
Venice
Brescia
Old Cathedral, Brescia
Venetian
Catholic
cardinal
Bishop of Brescia
Apostolic Nuncio in France
Venice
Luigi
Federico Corner
Council of Ten
Republic of Venice
Charles II, Archduke of Austria
Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
legate
Turin
Henry of Valois

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