Cardinals created by Pius II


Pope Pius II created thirteen new cardinals in three consistories:

5 March 1460

  1. Angelo Capranica, bishop of Rieti – cardinal priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, then cardinal bishop of Palestrina, died 3 July 1478
  2. Berardo Eroli, bishop of Spoleto – cardinal priest of S. Sabina, then cardinal bishop of Sabina, died 2 April 1479
  3. Niccolò Fortiguerra, bishop of Chieti – cardinal priest of S. Cecilia, died 21 December 1473
  4. Alessandro Oliva, O.E.S.A., prior general of his order – cardinal priest of S. Susanna, died 20 August 1463
  5. Francesco Nanni-Todeschini-Piccolomini, nephew of the Pope, administrator of the see of Siena – cardinal deacon of S. Eustachio, on 22 September 1503 became Pope Pius III, died 18 October 1503
  6. Burkhard Weisbriach, archbishop of Salzburg – cardinal priest of SS. Nereo ed Achilleo, died 16 February 1466

18 December 1461

  1. Bartolomeo Roverella, archbishop of Ravenna – cardinal priest of S. Clemente, died 2 May 1476
  2. Jean Jouffroy, bishop of Arras – cardinal priest of SS. Silvestro e Martino, died in November 1473
  3. Jaime Cardona, bishop of Urgel – cardinal priest without the title, died 1 December 1466
  4. Louis d'Albret, bishop of Cahors – cardinal priest of SS. Marcellino e Pietro, died 4 September 1465
  5. Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, bishop of Pavia – cardinal priest of S. Crisogono, then cardinal bishop of Frascati, died 10 September 1479
  6. Francesco Gonzaga, protonotary apostolic – cardinal deacon of S. Maria Nuova, died 21 October 1483

31 May 1462