Annibaldo Caetani di Ceccano[1] (c. 1282 – 1350) was an Italian Cardinal.[2] His palace, the Livrée Ceccano at Avignon, begun in about 1335/1340, still survives;[3] it is now a public library.
Life and ministry
He was Archbishop of Naples from 1326 to 1328 and undertook diplomatic missions, for example setting up the 1343 truce between England and France.[4][5] He was Bishop of Frascati from 1332 to 1350.[6] He was archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica (1342-1350), as well as Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1342 to 1344, and Archdeacon of Nottingham from 1331 to 1348.
He is celebrated for the luxury of a feast he gave in 1343 for Pope Clement VI, an eye-witness account of which has survived.[7]
References
- 1.Also spelled: Annibale Gaetani di Ceccano, Annibale da Ceccano, Annibale de Ceccano, Annibal Ceccano, Annibal Caetani di Ceccano, Annibal de Ceccano, Annibal de Tusculum, Annibal Gaetani, Ambald., Hannibaldus de Ceccano, Hannibaldus Tusculanus
- 2.From 1327
- 3.Livrée Ceccano at Structurae
- 4."Folios clxxi - CLXXX: Dec 1349 - | British History Online".
- 5."Folios lxxi - LXXX: Aug 1343 - | British History Online".
- 6."The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church – Suburbicarian Dioceses and Cardinal Patriarchs of Oriental Rite". Archived from the original on 1 January 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2007.
- 7.http://hypo.ge.ch/www/cliotexte//html/reforme.causes.html Archived 2007-02-23 at the Wayback Machine (in French)