1565–1566 papal conclave

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Papal conclave 1565–66
Dates and location
20 December 1565 – 7 January 1566 Apostolic Palace, Papal States
Key officials
Dean	Francesco Pisani
Sub-dean	Giovanni Morone
Camerlengo	Vitellozzo Vitelli
Protopriest	Georges d'Armagnac
Protodeacon	Giulio della Rovere
Elected pope
Michele Ghislieri Name taken: Pius V
← 1559 1572 →

The 1565–66 papal conclave (20 December – 7 January) was convened on the death of Pope Pius IV and ended in the election of Pope Pius V.

Background[]

Cardinal Vitellozzo Vitelli was Camerlengo; Cardinal Francesco Pisani, the most senior of the cardinals was Dean of the sacred College. The conclave was made up of several small groups aligned either by family relations, such as those who favored Francesco Gonzaga; and by locale, such as the Florentines. A separate division lay between some of the younger cardinals eager to press the reforms of the Council of Trent, and their senior colleagues whose views of reform leaned towards the Inquisition, which use appeared sometimes to border on the political.^[1]

Cardinal Electors at the Conclave[]

• Francesco Pisani (1494–1570)
• Giovanni Morone (1509–80)
• Alessandro Farnese (1520–89)
• Cristoforo Madruzzo (1512–78)
• Tiberio Crispo (1498-1566)
• Niccolò Caetani (1526–85)
• Ippolito II d'Este (1509–72)
• Giacomo Savelli (1523–87)
• Giulio della Rovere (1533–78)
• Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte (c1532-77)
• Fulvio Giulio della Corgna (1517–83)
• Giovanni Michele Saraceni (1498-1568)
• Giovanni Ricci (1498-1574)
• Giovanni Battista Cicala (1510–70)
• Luigi Cornaro (1517–84)
• Girolamo Simoncelli (1522-1605)
• Scipione Rebiba (1504–77)
• Jean Suau (1503–66)
• Michele Ghislieri (1504–72)
• Clemente d'Olera (1501–68)
• Vitellozzo Vitelli (1531–68)
• Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni (1519–91)
• Charles Borromeo (1538–84)
• Ludovico Simoneta (d. 1568)
• Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps (1533–95)
• Francesco Gonzaga (1538–66)
• Alfonso Gesualdo (1540-1603)
• Gianfrancesco Gambara (1533–87)
• Bernardo Salviati (1508–68)
• Pier Francesco Ferrero (1510–66)
• Luigi d'Este (1538–86)
• Ludovico Madruzzo (1532-1600)
• Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona (1536-1600)
• Francisco Pacheco de Villena
• Girolamo di Corregio (1511–72)
• Ferdinando de' Medici
• Marco Antonio Colonna (1523–79)
• Tolomeo Gallio (1527-1607)
• Angelo Nicolini (1505–67)
• Luigi Pisani (1522–70)
• Zaccaria Delfino (1527–84)
• Marcantonio Bobba (d. 1575)
• Alessandro Sforza (1534–81)
• Flavio Orsini (1532-1581)
• Francesco Alciati (1522–80)
• Francesco Abbondio Castiglioni (1523–68)
• Guido Luca Ferrero (1537–85)
• Benedetto Lomellini (1517–79)
• Guglielmo Sirleto (1514–85)
• Gabriele Paleotti (1522–97)
• Francesco Crasso (1500–66)

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