Cardinals created by Clement VII


Pope Clement VII created 32 new cardinals:

Consistory of 3 May 1527

  1. Benedetto Accolti, archbishop of Ravenna – cardinal-priest of S. Eusebio, † 21 September 1549
  2. Agostino Spinola, bishop of Perugia – cardinal-priest of S. Ciriaco, then cardinal-priest of S. Apollinare, † 18 October 1537
  3. Niccolò Gaddi, elect of Fermo – cardinal-deacon of S. Teodoro, then cardinal-deacon of SS. Vito e Modesto, cardinal-deacon of S. Maria in Domnica, cardinal-deacon of S. Maria in Via Lata, cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Via Lata, † 16 January 1552
  4. Ercole Gonzaga, bishop of Mantua – cardinal-deacon of S. Maria Nuova, then cardinal-priest of S. Maria Nuova, † 3 March 1563
  5. Marino Grimani, patriarch of Aquileia – cardinal-priest of S. Vitale, then cardinal-priest of S. Marcello, cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere, cardinal-bishop of Frascati, cardinal-bishop of Porto e S. Rufina, † 28 September 1546

Consistory of 21 November 1527

  1. Antonio Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. – cardinal-priest of S. Susanna, then cardinal-priest of S. Apollinare, cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere, cardinal-bishop of Palestrina, cardinal-bishop of Sabina, cardinal-bishop of Porto e S. Rufina, † 17 August 1543
  2. Gianvincenzo Carafa, archbishop of Naples – cardinal-priest of S. Pudenziana, then cardinal-priest of S. Prisca, cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere, cardinal-bishop of Palestrina, † 28 August 1541
  3. Andrea Matteo Palmieri, archbishop of Acerenza e Matera – cardinal-priest of S. Clemente, † 20 January 1537
  4. Antoine Duprat, archbishop of Sens – cardinal-priest of S. Anastasia, † 9 July 1535
  5. Enrique de Cardona y Enríquez, archbishop of Monreale – cardinal-priest of S. Marcello, † 7 February 1530
  6. Girolamo Grimaldi – cardinal-deacon of S. Giorgio in Velabro, † 27 November 1543
  7. Pirro Gonzaga, bishop of Modena – cardinal-deacon of S. Agata in Suburra, † 28 January 1529
Sigismondo Pappacoda, bishop of Tropea, declined the promotion to the cardinalate.

Consistory of 7 December 1527

  1. Francisco de Quiñones, O.F.M., master general of the Order of Friars Minor – cardinal-priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, † 5 November 1540

Consistory of 20 December 1527

  1. Francesco Cornaro – cardinal-priest of S. Pancrazio, then cardinal-priest of S. Cecilia, cardinal-priest of S. Ciriaco, cardinal-priest of S. Prassede, cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere, cardinal-bishop of Albano, cardinal-bishop of Palestrina, † 26 September 1543

Promotions in January of 1529

  1. Girolamo Doria – cardinal-deacon of S. Tommaso in Parione, then cardinal-deacon of S. Maria in Portico, † 25 March 1558
  2. Ippolito de' Medici, nephew of the Pope, archbishop of Avignon – cardinal-priest of S. Prassede, then cardinal-priest of S Lorenzo in Damaso, † 10 August 1535

Consistory of 13 August 1529

  1. Mercurino Gattinara, chancellor of the Emperor Charles V – cardinal-priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina, † 5 June 1530

Consistory of 9 March 1530

  1. François de Tournon, C.R.S.A., archbishop of Bourges – cardinal-priest of SS. Marcellino e Pietro, then cardinal-bishop of Sabina, cardinal-bishop of Ostia e Velletri, † 22 April 1562
  2. Bernardo Clesio, bishop of Trent – cardinal-priest of S Stefano in Montecelio, † 30 July 1539
  3. Louis de Gorrevod, bishop of Saint-Jean de Maurienne – cardinal-priest of S. Cesareo in Palatio, † 1535
  4. García de Loaysa, O.P., bishop of Osma – cardinal-priest of S. Susanna, † 22 April 1546
  5. Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga, bishop of Burgos – cardinal-deacon of S. Nicola in Carcere, † 15 January 1537

Consistory of 8 June 1530

  1. Gabriel de Gramont, bishop of Tarbes, ambassador of the King of France – cardinal-priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina then cardinal-priest of S. Cecilia, † 26 March 1534

Consistory of 22 February 1531

  1. Alonso Manrique de Lara, archbishop of Seville – cardinal-priest of S. Callisto, then cardinal-priest of SS. XII Apostoli, † 28 September 1538
  2. Juan Pardo de Tavera, archbishop of Santiago de Compostela – cardinal-priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina, † 1 August 1545

Consistory of 22 September 1531

  1. Antonio Pucci, bishop of Pistoia, grand penitentiary – cardinal-priest of SS. IV Coronati, then cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere, cardinal-bishop of Albano, cardinal-bishop of Sabina, † 12 October 1544

Consistory of 21 February 1533

  1. Esteban Gabriel Merino, bishop of Jaén and patriarch of the West India – cardinal-priest of S. Vitale, then cardinal-priest of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, † in July 1535

Consistory of 3 March 1533

  1. Jean d’Orléans-Longueville, archbishop of Toulouse and bishop of Orleans – cardinal-priest of SS. Marcellino e Pietro, † 24 September 1533

Consistory of 7 November 1533

All the new cardinals received their titular churches on 10 November 1533:
  1. Jean Le Veneur, bishop of Lisieux – cardinal-priest of S. Bartolomeo all'Isola, † 7 August 1543
  2. Claude de Longwy de Givry, bishop of Langres – cardinal-priest of S. Agnese in Agone, † 9 August 1561
  3. Odet de Coligny – cardinal-deacon of SS. Sergio e Bacco, then cardinal-deacon of S. Adriano ; deposed and excommunicated for heresy on 31 March 1563, † 13 April 1571
  4. Philippe de la Chambre, O.S.B. – cardinal-priest of SS. Silvestro e Martino, then cardinal-priest of S. Prassede, cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere, cardinal-bishop of Frascati, † 21 February 1550