Matteo Orsini - Knowledge

140:. In answer to Orsini's addresses, the Pope replied to the Romans again in a letter of 8 June 1327, emphasizing the danger that Louis the Bavarian represented, and the impossibility of travelling to Rome just at that time. A second embassy was sent in June, more for form's sake, advising the Pope of what they were going to be compelled to do, than in expectation of action. The expected revolution and change of government in Rome duly took place. Louis the Bavarian entered Rome, and was crowned at Saint Peter's, not by papal authority but by authority of the people of Rome. Despite this political disaster, Pope John XXII never went to Rome. 27: 132:, Pandulf Count of Anguillara and Annibaldo de Annibaldis, to write to the Pope, rehearsing the difficulties that Rome was suffering because of the absence of the Pope and Roman Curia, and demanding his immediate return. John XXII wrote to the Romans on 20 January 1327, expressing his loving concern, but also indicating obstacles to a visit. He also wrote to Giacomo Savelli in Rome, urging him to keep the Romans from offering obedience to Louis of Bavaria. The Romans replied with an embassy. While holding the post of provincial of the Roman Province, Orsini was appointed an Ambassador ( 98:

and the definitores were attacked by a deranged novice, Jacobus Dombellinghi, who injured Orsini with his sword. He attended the general chapter of the order at Bordeaux in June 1324. On his return from the general chapter he fell into a serious illness which almost cost him his life. In 1326, Orsini was relieved of his duty as provincial of the Roman Province and succeeded by Bertramus Monaldeschi, who was elected by the General Chapter meeting in Paris. Orsini was appointed vicar for the master general in Italy.

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It is sometimes said that Orsini was Archbishop of Palermo from 1334 to 1338. This is incorrect. His cousin, Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, the incumbent Archbishop since October 1320, did not die until 27 August 1335, and a successor, Archbishop Theobaldus, was appointed by Pope Benedict XII on 24 April

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De annis et de locis in quibus docuit non satis accurate possumus loqui.... Illud certum est ab an. 1307 ad 1320 docendo jugiter operam dedisse: Parisiis vero an 1316 ut ex actibus Cap. Aretini 1315 constat. Romae vero docuisse tradunt Fontana et Altamura, aliique recentiores, eos Touron excipit,

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He was prior of the Convent of the Minerva. He won distinction by his zeal for the spread of the order, and was elected provincial of the Roman Province in 1322 in the provincial chapter at Orvieto. In 1323, during a meeting of the chapter of the Roman Province at Città di Castello (Tiferno), he

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He was canon of the Church of S. Etienne in Châlons sur Saône. He entered the Dominican Order at the Convent of S. Jacques in Paris, around 1294, and completed the full course of theology. He returned to Italy, but the provincial of the Roman Province sent him back to Paris in 1306, where he

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1336. The time span is therefore some eight months, not four or five years, and it was not ended by his promotion to the See of Sabina. As Eubel points out, Orsini was Administrator of the Diocese of Palermo during the Sede Vacante, not the actual Archbishop.

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Orsini died in Avignon on 18 August 1340, and was buried in the Church of the Dominicans. His body was later transferred to Rome, where it was buried in the sacristy of the Dominican church of S. Maria sopra Minerva. He had built a chapel in honor of

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in that church; Orsini's remains now lie beneath the High Altar of S. Maria sopra Minerva. In 1630, when the sacristy of the church was being renovated, Orsini's remains were moved into the Church, and now lie in the same tomb as Cardinal

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probably in the autumn of 1326. His success at deftly scolding the Pope, and yet maintaining the papal dignity and not embarrassing him, may have led to Orsini's appointment as Bishop of Agrigento.

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Assignamus ad legendum sentencias Parisius isto anno fratrem Mattheum de Ursinis; et providemus, quantum nostra interest, de Fratre Michaele de Furno, quod legat sentencias Parisius in anno sequenti

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brought increased danger to the city of Rome. The Pope was still hostile to Louis, having excommunicated him repeatedly, and yet Louis intended to be crowned King of the Lombards and

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Pope John XXII made Orsini a cardinal along with nine others at the Consistory of 18 December 1327, and assigned him the titular Church of

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Orsini continued, in various ways, to promote the welfare of the Dominican Order, richly endowing the Convent of St. Dominic in Bologna.

645: 203: 650: 271:. In other words, Orsini was assigned for one year to teach bible at the Paris Convent of the Dominicans. B. Reichert, 499:

Tomus Vigesimus Quartus, 1313–1333 (Barri-Ducis: Ludovicus Guerin 1872), under the year 1327, § 4-14, pp. 313-317

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obtained the degree of Master. He taught biblical studies at Paris, Florence, and Rome. In 1311 he attended the

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Orsini's service as vicar of the master general was short-lived. On 20 October 1326, the pope named Orsini

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He was the nephew of Cardinal Francesco Napoleone Orsini (1295–1312), who was himself the nephew of

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qui etiam refert praefecturam Minervitani Coenobii; de his omnibus silent articult necrologici.

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In 1326, the difficulties over the office of emperor between the Habsburgs and the Wittelsbach

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Caesaris S. R. E. Cardinalis Baronii, Od. Raynaldi et Jac. Laderchii Annales Ecclesiastici

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His early studies were at Bologna, where he studied law and took the Baccalaureate.

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After teaching in Paris in 1316, Orsini is held to have taught at the Dominican

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After the death of Cardinal Pierre des Chappes on 24 March 1336, Orsini became

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Touron, p. 202. Masetti, p. 312. On his duties, see Daniel Antonin Mortier,

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Angelus Pacis: The Legation of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1326–1334

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in Rome, had been ousted in the autumn of 1326. Gregorovius VI, p. 105.

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at London appointed him Vicar for the itinerant preachers of the Order.

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Stefano Forte, "Il cardinal Matteo Orsini OP e il suo testamento,"

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