Angelo Acciaioli
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Angelo Acciaioli II or Angelo Acciaioli junior (April 15, 1349 - May 31, 1408 in Pisa
Pisa
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) was an Italian
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 Catholic cardinal
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A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

.

Biography

Born in Florence
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, Angelo was elected bishop of Rapallo in 1375, but in 1383 he was transferred to the see of Florence where he had been preceded by a previous family member many years before, Angelo Acciaioli I
Angelo Acciaioli I
Angelo Acciaioli I was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop from Florence.- Biography :Angelo was born in Florence of the noble Acciaioli family, the son of Monte, the grandson of Tommaso Acciaiuoli, also known as Mannino Acciaiuoli....

. He was promoted to the cardinalate on December 17, 1384 by Pope Urban VI
Pope Urban VI
Pope Urban VI , born Bartolomeo Prignano, was Pope from 1378 to 1389.-Biography:Born in Itri, he was a devout monk and learned casuist, trained at Avignon. On March 21, 1364, he was consecrated Archbishop of Acerenza in the Kingdom of Naples...

. He defended legality of the election of Urban VI and his successors against the claims of the antipopes Clement VII
Antipope Clement VII
Robert of Geneva was elected to the papacy as Pope Clement VII by the French cardinals who opposed Urban VI, and was the first Avignon antipope of the Western Schism.-Biography:...

 and Benedict XIII
Antipope Benedict XIII
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. In the Papal conclave, 1389
Papal conclave, 1389
The papal conclave, 1389 was convened from October 25, 1389 to November 2, 1389 after the death of Pope Urban VI. The conclave is historically unique because all of the cardinal electors were the creation of a single pontiff—Urban VI—because none of the surviving cardinals created by...

 he was nearly of being elected to the papacy. Legate of Pope Boniface IX
Pope Boniface IX
Pope Boniface IX , born Piero Tomacelli, was the second Roman Pope of the Western Schism from November 2, 1389, until October 1, 1404...

 in the Kingdom of Naples
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 in 1390 and in Hungary
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 in 1403.

Angelo crowned king Ladislaus of Naples. He reformed the Benedictine monastery S. Paolo fuori le mura in Rome and participated in the papal conclave, 1404
Papal conclave, 1404
Papal conclave of October 10 to October 17, 1404 – the papal conclave of the time of the Great Western Schism, convened after the death of Pope Boniface IX, it elected Cardinal Cosimo Gentile Migliorati, who under the name of Innocent VII became the third pope of the Roman Obedience.-Cardinal...

. Newly elected Pope Innocent VII
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Pope Innocent VII , born Cosimo de' Migliorati, was briefly Pope at Rome, from 1404 to his death, during the Western Schism while there was a rival Pope, antipope Benedict XIII , at Avignon.Migliorati was born to a simple family of Sulmona in the Abruzzi...

 named him archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican Basilica (shortly after December 4, 1404), Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia e Velletri (June 12, 1405), Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (June 12, 1405), and finally Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church (on August 29, 1405). He presided over the papal conclave, 1406
Papal conclave, 1406
Papal conclave of November 18 to November 30, 1406 – the papal conclave of the time of the Great Western Schism, convened after the death of Pope Innocent VII, it elected Cardinal Angelo Correr, who under the name of Gregory XII became the fourth pope of the Roman Obedience.-Cardinal electors:Pope...

. He died in Pisa
Pisa
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at the age of 59. His remains were transferred to the Carthusian monastery in Florence.
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