Carlo de' Medici (cardinal)

His Eminence; Carlo de' Medici
	Dean of the College of Cardinals
	Portrait by Justus Sustermans, c. 1650
Church	Catholic Church
Appointed	23 September 1652
Term ended	17 June 1666
Predecessor	Giulio Roma
Successor	Francesco Barberini
Other posts	Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia-Velletri; (1652-1666)
Previous posts	See list; Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica; (1616-1623); Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere; (1623-1644); Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto Vecchio; (1644-1645); Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati; (1645-1652)
Orders
Consecration	17 April 1645; by Annibale Bentivoglio
Created cardinal	2 December 1615; by Pope Paul V
Rank	Cardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born	19 March 1595; Florence, Italy
Died	17 June 1666 (aged 71); Florence, Italy
Buried	Basilica of San Lorenzo

Carlo de' Medici (19 March 1595 – 17 June 1666) was an Italian nobleman and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Early life and ancestry

Born in Florence, as a younger son into an influential Italian noble family, he was destined for a career in Church. Fulfilling his promise, he had a successful ecclesiastical career, rising to become Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Dean of the College of Cardinals. De' Medici was raised to the cardinalate by Pope Paul V in the consistory of 2 December 1615 and was made Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica. He was an elector at the papal conclaves of 1621 and 1623 that elected Pope Gregory XV and Pope Urban VIII. He transferred deaconries to that of San Nicola in Carcere in 1623, and was the Cardinal protodeacon at the conclave of 1644 that elected Pope Innocent X. He was briefly Cardinal Deacon of Sant'Eustachio, before being raised to the order of Cardinal Priests in December 1644, with the title of San Sisto.

The next year, de' Medici was raised to Cardinal Bishop of Sabina, but opted for the suburbicarian see of Frascati seven months later. On 29 April 1652 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina and Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals. On 23 September the same year he became Dean of the College of Cardinals and Cardinal Bishop of Ostia e Velletri. He presided over the conclave of 1655 and announced the papal election of Pope Alexander VII.^[1]

Carlo de' Medici died in Florence in 1666. He is buried at his family crypt at the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze.