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Landolfo Brancaccio (? in the Kingdom of Naples – 29 October 1312 in Avignon) was a Neapolitan aristocrat,[1] friend of King Charles II of Naples, and Roman Catholic Cardinal.
Brancaccio first emerges in a record of his creation as Cardinal-Deacon by Pope Celestine V in the Consistory of 18 September 1294, and assignment to the Deaconry of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria in Rome.[2]
He attended the Conclave of 23–24 December 1294, which followed the resignation of Pope Celestine V. Benedetto Caetani was elected Pope Boniface VIII at the accession after the first ballot.[3]
Cardinal Landolfo was appointed Legate in the Kingdom of Sicily (i.e. the Kingdom of Charles II of Naples) by Boniface VIII on 6 April 1294,[4] and Administrator of the Kingdom of Naples along with Filippo Prince of Taranto, Vicar of the Kingdom of Naples. On 28 January 1298 Pope Boniface ordered his Apostolic Legate, Cardinal Landolfo, Cardinal Deacon of Sant'Angelo, to carry out the gift of the monastery S. Trinità in Venosa to the Knights Hospitallers.[5]
He was again Legate in Sicily (7 August 1299), but he had been recalled by 13 September.[6] He was present, however, at Agropoli near Salerno when Queen Blanche of Aragon gave birth to a son and heir, Alfonso; the Cardinal wrote immediately to King James II on 8 September 1299.[7] He was back in the Curia and subscribing documents on 2 October 1300.[8] He was already one of the agents handling Curia business for King James II of Aragon, King of Sicily,[9] a connection he maintained for the rest of his career. In September 1301 Pope Boniface made Cardinal Brancaccio Auditor (Judge) in the matter of the election of a Bishop for his newly acquired territory of Murcia.[10]
カストロ教区のヘクトル司教が亡くなり、後継者として2人の候補者が別々に選出されたとき、この件は教皇に付託された。ボニファティウス8世はランドルフォ枢機卿を査定官（裁判官）に任命し、ランドルフォは調査の結果、両方の選挙を無効にするよう勧告した。しかし、死が介入し、ボニファティウスはこの件を解決することができなかった。後継者であるベネディクト11世が、1303年11月8日にカストロに新しい司教を任命した。[ 11 ]
ブランカッチョ枢機卿は、1303年10月11日にバチカンでボニファティウス教皇が死去した後、1303年のコンクラーベに出席した。ドミニコ会の元総長であるニッコロ・ボッカシーニ枢機卿は1303年10月22日に選出され、ベネディクト11世という名を選んだ。[ 12 ] ランドルフォ枢機卿の要請により、彼の甥であるベラルドゥス・スイ・サリは1303年11月3日にナポリ大聖堂の参事会員と聖職禄を与えられた。[ 13 ]
1303年末、ランドルフォ枢機卿はジョヴァンニ・ボッカマッツァ枢機卿とロベール・ド・ポンティニー枢機卿とともに委員会に参加し、グッビオのサンタ・マリア・デ・アルフィオーロ修道院の修道院長の選出に関する事実を確認した。教皇ベネディクトは、利害関係者の異議を却下し、1304年1月2日に彼らの決定を承認した。[ 14 ] 同時期に別の委員会に参加していた同委員会は、アングロネ教区のサン・エリアス・デ・カルボーネ修道院の修道院長の選出を却下し、教皇は自ら選んだ人物を任命した。[ 15 ] ランドルフォ枢機卿は、他の14人の枢機卿とともに、スルモーネのサント・スピリト修道院を支持する教皇勅書に署名した。[ 16 ] ボニファティウス 8 世の治世末期、枢機卿は、様々な教会やその他の財産を略奪したブランデンブルクのオットーとコンラート、およびその支持者たちの破門事件の処理を任され、彼の勧告は最終的に 1304 年 3 月 12 日にベネディクト 11 世によって承認された。[ 17 ] 1304 年 2 月 17 日、ランドルフォ枢機卿はベネディクト 11 世から次のヴィエシュティ (ヴェスターナ) 司教を指名する特権を与えられた。[ 18 ]
Cardinal Landolfo was one of the nineteen cardinals who attended the Conclave of 1304-1305 at Perugia, where Benedict XI had died on 7 July 1304. It began on 17 July, with Cardinal Landolfo placing himself in the faction led by Cardinal Napoleone Orsini.[19] The cardinals reached a decision on 5 July 1305 with the election of the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Bertrand de Got, who was not a cardinal.[20] He called himself Pope Clement V. He was French, but a subject of King Edward I of England, not of King Philip IV of France.
On 10 July 1308 Cardinal Landolfo was one of four cardinals who met in the house of Cardinal Guillaume de Mandagot in Poitou, and there witnessed the abjuration of heresy by more than fifty members of the Knights Templar.[21] Brancaccio was one of the three cardinals sent by Clement V to the Chateau de Chinon in July, 1308, to interrogate Jacques de Molay and the other Templars who were being held prisoner there.[22] De Molay later recanted, in the presence of Pope Clement, the confession he had given the cardinals.[23] On 24 June 1310 Cardinal Landolfo and Cardinal Stephanus de Suisy were sent by Pope Clement to negotiate with King Philip IV pro quibusdam urgentibus negotiis ('concerning certain pressing matters').[24]
On 27 October 1310, the Cardinal was able to procure an extension for one of his chaplains, a subdeacon, of an additional year on the requirement of Pope Gregory X that a new appointee to a benefice had one year to be ordained a priest.[25] On 27 November 1310 Cardinal Landolfo was given faculties to receive the resignation of Raymond de Gabriaco, the Rector of the church of S. Maria de Osorio in the diocese of Maguelonne, and appointing in his place Bernard de Gabriaco.[26]
He attended the Ecumenical Council of Vienne under Pope Clement V in 1311 and 1312.[27] It was at this Council that the dissolution of the Knights Templar was decreed.
He died in Avignon of 29 October 1312, and was buried in the Cathedral of Notre Dame des Domps, in the Chapel of the Angels which he had had constructed.
