Simone Paltanieri

Simone Paltanieri (or Paltinieri, or Paltineri, or Paltaneri), son of Pesce Paltanieri, member of a distinguished family[1] (born in Monselice in the Veneto, some 20 km. from Padua, ca. 1200; died in Viterbo in February, 1277), was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.

Monselice, the fortress

Education and early career

He held the title of Magister (Master),[2] which indicates he had graduate training in a university. It is said that he was Master of Canon Law, and that the university from which he acquired his degree was (not unreasonably) Padua.

He was named Canon in the Cathedral of Padua in 1233, and held the post for life. He became a citizen of Padua.[3]

In 1234 (or 1231), Simon Paltanieri was named Archpriest of the Abbey of S. Giustina in Monselice, a dependency of S. Giustina in Padua, a post he held until 1258.[4]

Administrator of Aversa

On 17 November 1254, Master Simone, Canon of Padua and Procurator of the Church of Aversa, was named Administrator of the Church of Aversa by Pope Innocent IV.[5] He was already Procurator, which meant that the Church of Aversa had employed him to manage its business in the Roman Curia. The reason for Simone's appointment as Administrator of Aversa, a town just north of Naples, is not far to seek. Innocent IV, in his obsessive policy of destroying the Hohenstaufen, a policy inherited from his predecessor Gregory IX, had negotiated an understanding with Manfred, son of Frederick II "the Great", and brother of Conrad IV von Hohenstaufen. The apparent understanding was embodied in a treaty of September 1254, in which the Pope acquired possession of Apulia.[6] But Manfred's suspicions were justifiably aroused against the Pope and his advisers by their behavior as the Roman Curia was traveling from Anagni to Capua.[7] He had built a papal army, led by Cardinal Guglielmo Fieschi, his nephew, and began moving south against Manfred in October 1254. The papal army reached Teano on 16 October, causing Manfred to flee for his life.[8] During these two months, Innocent was eager to acquire as much local support as possible, including that of the barons of Aversa.[9] On 23 October 1254, for example, Innocent, who was at Capua at the time, detached Amalfi from their traditional obedience to the Kings of Sicily and received them directly into his own power. The papal army was soundly defeated at the Battle of Foggia, which took place on 2 December 1254, days before the death of Innocent himself, in Naples, on Monday 7 December. The new pope, Alexander IV, raised another army against Manfred, led by Cardinal Ottaviano degli Ubaldini as Legate in the Kingdom of Sicily. It is conjectured that Paltanieri was his Vicar. The second papal army was crushed by Manfred in 1257.

Cardinal

Simone Paltanieri was created cardinal priest by Pope Urban IV (Jacques Pantaleone) on 17 December 1261, and eventually assigned the titular Church of SS. Silvester and Martin in Rome.[10] At the time of his creation he had not yet received sacramental ordination as a priest, and complaints were made to the Pope that he should not be allowed to function as a cardinal until that defect had been made good. Pope Urban agreed that he should not use cardinalatial insignia or participate in Consistory until he had been ordained.[11] Then charges were laid against Simone's character, which the Pope felt compelled to acknowledge for their seriousness, and an investigation was therefore ordered into their trustworthiness.[12] To be sure, the anonymous Monk of Padua gave Simone a rousing endorsement: "Lord Simone de Montescillice, Canon of Padua, is very blessed, as much as in the appearance of his body and the nobility of his ancestry as the gentility of his mores and his manyfold knowledge."[13] But it was not until 26 June 1262, that Cardinal Simone subscribed his first papal document.[14] As a cardinal, Paltanieri was a member of the Ghibbeline faction in the Sacred College.[15]

Provincial governor

On 20 May 1264, Cardinal Simone was appointed Rector of the Duchy of Spoleto, the Marches of Ancona and Massa Trabaria, Perugia, Civita Castellana, Tudertina, Narni, Interamna and Reate, as well as the Patriarchates of Aquileia, Gradensis and Ravenna by Pope Urban IV.[16] Pope Urban died on 2 October 1264. Cardinal Simone did not participate in the papal election of 8 October 1264 in Perugia,[17] though he was surely present for the ratification of the election upon the arrival of the pope-elect, Guy Foulques, on 5 February 1265.

Conclaves

Cardinal Simone Paltanieri participated in the long Election of 1268-1271, and was one of the six cardinals elected on 1 September 1271, to a Committee of Compromise, charged with selecting a pope from inside or outside the College of Cardinals, provided that five of the six cardinals were in agreement.[18] Archdeacon Teobaldo Visconti of Liège, a native of Piacenza and nephew of Otto Visconti, Archbishop of Milan, was chosen. Visconti's nephew, Vicedomino de' Vicedomini, a native of Piacenza, Archbishop of Aix, was a follower and advisor of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, brother of Louis IX of France.

In 1274 Cardinal Simone travelled to France and was present at the opening session of the Second Council of Lyon, under the presidency of Pope Gregory X.[19] His return journey to Italy seems to have followed a different path from that of the Pope and six cardinals who accompanied him. Cardinal Simone was not present at Arezzo on 10 January 1276, when Pope Gregory X died without having completed his return journey to Rome. Cardinal Simone was present, however, in time to take part in the Conclave of 20–21 January 1276, which elected Cardinal Pierre de Tarantaise as Pope Innocent V on the first ballot.[20] Cardinal Simone was also one of a dozen or thirteen cardinals who participated in the Second Conclave of 1276, which began on 2 July, and resulted in the election of Cardinal Ottobono Fieschi of Genoa on 11 July.[21] Cardinal Ottobono took the name Adrian V, and in his first Consistory, the day of or the day after his election, he suspended the papal Bull, "Ubi Periculum" of Pope Gregory X, which governed the operation of papal conclaves. He and the Papal Curia then immediately left Rome to get away from the summer heat. Unfortunately Adrian died in Viterbo only thirty-eight days into his reign, never having been ordained priest, consecrated bishop, or crowned Pope.

The Conclave to elect a successor to Pope Adrian should have begun on 28 or 29 August but the rules that dictated such a date ("Ubi Periculum") had been suspended. In any case, it is known that disorders in the city of Viterbo, caused by members of the Roman Curia and the People, brought about a delay. Ten cardinals selected one of their body, Cardinal Peter Juliani of Lisbon, as the new pope. He chose to call himself John XXI (the credulous inclusion of 'Pope Joan' in the papal numbering confused the correct enumeration; Peter was only the 20th Pope John), and was crowned at Viterbo on 20 September 1276 by Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini.[22]

Death

Cardinal Simone Paltanieri died in Viterbo between 7 and 12 February 1277.[23]

References
  1. Alessandro de Marchi, Cenni storici sulle famiglie di Padova e sui monumenti dell'Università premesso un breve trattato sull'arte araldica (Padova 1842), pp. 228-245, especially 242-243.
  2. E. Berger, Registres d' Innocent IV III (Paris 1897), p. 540 no. 8209.
  3. Marchese Dondi dall'Orologio, Serie cronologico-istorica dei canonici di Padova (Padova 1805), pp. 145-146.
  4. Gaetano Cognolato, Saggio di memorie della terra di Monselice di sue sette chiese del santuario in esse aperto ultimamente (Padova 1794), pp. 50-51. Giuseppe Gennari, Annali della città di Padova Part 3 (Padova 1804), pp. 26-27.
  5. E. Berger, Registres d' Innocent IV III (Paris 1897), p. 540 no. 8209. Conradus Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, I, editio altera (Monasterii 1913), p. 8, believed that Magister Simone held the position of Administrator until he was named cardinal.
  6. Baronius-Theiner, under the year 1254, nos. 48-59, pp. 468-472; Capasso, no. 153, pp. 77-78.
  7. Nicolaus de Jamsilla, in Ludovico Antonio Muratori Rerum Italicarum Scriptores VIII, pp. 527-532; Baronius-Theiner, under the year 1254, nos. 65-68, p. 473-474; Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Annali d'Italia 18, pp. 189-190; Capasso, pp. 72-73; Di Cesare, Storia di Manfredo, pp. 49-101.
  8. Capasso, no. 159, p. 79.
  9. On 31 October 1254, Innocent IV had confirmed Bartolommeo de Rebursa, a miles of Aversa, and his heirs in their castles and other holdings: Berger, Registres d' Innocent IV, p. 535 no. 8174. On 12 November 1534, Innocent confirmed Perono of Aversa in his castles, which he had once held in feudal tenure from the excommunicated Conrad IV: Berger, Registres d' Innocent IV p. 534, no. 8176.
  10. Conradus Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, I, editio altera (Monasterii 1913), pp. 8 and 46.
  11. Potthast, no. 18211 (5 January 1262). Baronius-Theiner, Volume 22 (1870), under the year 1261 § 23, p. 73.
  12. Potthast, no. 18227 (7 February 1262).
  13. Annales S. Iustinae Patavini, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica Tomus XIX (Hannover 1866), p. 181.
  14. Charles Piot, "Documents relatifs à l' abbaye de Solières," Compte rendu des séances, ou Recueil de ses bulletins. Académie royale de Belgique Cinquième série, 4 (1894), pp. 33-34, no. 13. E. Jordan, p. 329 (based on Potthast, no. 18462) is out-of-date.
  15. Dominique Raynaud, L'hypothèse d'Oxford: essai sur les origines de la perspective (Paris 1998), p. 207.
  16. C. Giraud, Les Registres d' Urbain IV II (1901), p. 305-309, nos. 631-643; A. Theiner, Codex diplomaticus dominii temporalis S. Sedis, I, p. 162-163; and p. 324, no. 683 (June 24, 1264); p. 318, no. 663 (July 3, 1264); p. 305, no. 1934 (July 9, 1264). Clemens IV, Epistulae 272 (ed. Martin Thumser), October 16, 1266; Epistulae 292 (December 22, 1266); Augustus Potthast, Regesta pontificum Romanorum II (Berlin 1875), 20017 (May 25, 1267).
  17. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi I, p. 8 n. 11, states that he did not participate. See the note of Giovanni Domenico Mansi in Baronius-Theiner 22, under the year 1265, Clementis IV anno 1, no. 1, p. 147; and Augustus Potthast, Regesta pontificum Romanorum II (Berlin 1875), p. 1543.
  18. Francesco Cristofori, Le tombe dei papi in Viterbo (Siena 1887), pp. 208-209.
  19. Isidorus Carini, "Brevis Historia Concilii Lugdunensis," in Specilegio Vaticano di documenti inediti e rari estratti dagli Archivi e dalla Biblioteca della Sede Apostolica Volume I (Roma: Ermanno Loescher 1890), pp. 250-251.
  20. John P. Adams, Sede Vacante of January 1276. retrieved 02/12/2016.
  21. John P. Adams, Sede Vacante and Conclave of July, 1276. retrieved 02/13/1216.
  22. John P. Adams, Sede Vacante, August-September, 1276. retrieved 02/12/2016. Richard Stapper, Papst Johannes XXI (Münster 1898), pp. 33-38. Augustin Demski, Papst Nikolaus III, Eine Monographie (Münster 1903) 34-37.
  23. His Testament is dated 7 February 1277: Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, The Pope's Body (Chicago 2000), p. 196. Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, I Testamenti dei Cardinali del Duecento (Roma 1980), xciii, 29, 175, 189. He is mentioned as deceased in a letter of Pope John XXI dated 12 February 1277: Registre de Jean XXI, no. 80, pp. 28-29

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