Giacomo Orsini (cardinal)

Pope Urban V gave the young Orsini a canonry in the diocese of Padua in November 1362 and in 1367 appointed him a protonotary apostolic.[2] Over the years, Orsini acquired numerous ecclesiastical benefices throughout Europe, including canonries in Elne (1371), Kraków (1371), Utrecht (1374) and York (1374); the archpriestship of Chiusi (1372); the archdeaconries of Leicester (1372), Ely (1373) and Durham (1374); and the deanery of Salisbury (1374).[2] On the death of Gregory XI, Orsini was a papal candidate, but he was strongly opposed by Cardinal Jean de Cros on account of his youth.[5] Orsini, with Francesco Tebaldeschi [it], Pietro Corsini [fr] and Simone da Borsano [it], was part of an Italian faction among the cardinals.[10] Already in 1377, when seeking Orsini's intervention to bring an end to the War of the Eight Saints,[2] she had labelled him a "stinking flower" in the church's garden.[10] In the estimation of a modern Jesuit researcher, Marc Dykmans, however, Orsini was "one of the very few who did not lie" in the depositions taken down in 1378 for the monarchs of Spain and recorded in the Libri de Schismate.
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