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Angelo Capranica (c. 1415 -1478) (called theCardinal of Santa Croce or theCardinal of Rieti) was anItalianRoman Catholicbishop andcardinal.
AngeloCapranica was born inRome around 1415, the son of de Niccoló Pantagati da Capranica and his wife, Iacobella.[1] He was the younger brother ofDomenico Capranica, who became a cardinal in 1423 but was not recognized as such by PopeEugene IV until much later.[1]
Angelo was electedArchbishop of Manfredonia on 17 March 1438. This may have been tied to his brother's reconciliation with the pope.[1] Angelo was transferred to thesee of Ascoli Piceno by PopeNicholas V on 4 May 1447, and then to thesee of Rieti on 25 September 1450.[1] Angelo also served as governor ofCesena and ofFoligno. Shortly after his brother's death in August 1458,Pope Pius II named him governor ofBologna in September 1458.[1] Domenico, shortly before his death, had founded a seminary in his palace, theAlmo Collegio Capranica; the younger Capranica expanded the palace and opened it to students in 1460.[1]
In theconsistory celebrated in Siena on 5 March 1460, Pope Pius II made Capranica acardinal priest. Capranica entered Siena on 21 March 1460, receiving thered hat later that day. On 26 March 1460 he received thetitular church ofSanta Croce in Gerusalemme, his brother's former title.
In April 1460, Angelo was appointedlegatea latere toBologna.[1] He returned to Rome on 31 December 1460. He left Rome for Bologna a second time on 18 May 1461, returning on November 17.[1] He left for Bologna a third time on 23 February 1463, before rejoining thepapal court in Siena on 24 March 1464.[1]
Angelo participated in thepapal conclave of 1464 that electedPope Paul II.[1] The new pope renewed Capranica's appointment as legatea latere on 1 October 1464, and he left for Bologna on 12 January 1465.[1] He returned to Rome on 27 November, then on 6 May 1466 left again for Bologna, returning to Rome on 10 January 1468.[1]
On 9 January 1469 Cardinal Capricana and CardinalRoderic Llançol i de Borja accompaniedFrederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, from Rome toViterbo.[1]
Angelo participated in thepapal conclave of 1471 that electedPope Sixtus IV.[1] On 23 November 1471 the new pope named himpapal legate to the Italian princes for the purposes of a new crusade against theOttoman Turks.[1]
On 11 December 1472 Angelo became acardinal bishop, taking thesuburbicarian see of Palestrina, though retaining histitulus of Santa Croce in Gerusalemmein commendam.[1] Angelo Capranica was at times abbotin commendam of theVallombrosan monastery of San Pancrazio inFlorence and of the Vallombrosan monastery of San Basilio di Cavata in the diocese ofParma, as well as of the Benedictine monasteries of San Bartolomeo inFerrara, Santa Sofia inBenevento and San Giovanni degli Eremiti inPalermo.
Angelo becameArchbishop of Fermo, his brother's former see, on 9 April 1473.[1] He celebrated asynod there, but soon fell ill and returned to Rome on 17 November 1473, resigning the archbishopric on 17 June 1474.[1]
Capranica died in Rome on 3 July 1478.[1] He is buried inSanta Maria sopra Minerva in the same chapel as his brother.[1]
