Report on an Imperial Mission to Rome 1455 by Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 2nd version. (Reports on Five Diplomatic Missions by Enea Silvio Piccolomini; 5)
Résumé
In April 1455, Cardinal Alfonso de Borja was elected pope. Soon afterwards the embassies from the the Christian princes and city states began to arrive in Rome to make the traditional declaration of obedience to the new pope. In August, the embassy of Emperor Friedrich III arrived, consisting of Bishop Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Bishop of Trieste and imperial counsellor and top diplomat, and Johann Hinderbach, another imperial official. Their mission was to declare the emperor’s obedience and to negotiate a number of issues. One of these issues concerned the payment of a debt owed by the Papacy to the emperor. Others were problems connected with appointments to ecclesiastical offices and payment of annates. The pope refused to negotiate these issues before the declaration of obedience had been made, and afterwards he mostly declined to grant the imperial petitions. In this area, the embassy was not very successful, as Piccolomini had to inform the emperor.
Mots clés
15th century
Ecclesiastical appointments
Papal reservations
Declarations of obedience to the pope
Renaissance diplomacy
Diplomatic reports
Borgia popes
Alfonso de Borja
Pope Callixtus III
Pope Callisto III
Pope Calixtus III
Kaiser Friedrich III (Habsburg)
Emperor Frederick III (Habsburg)
Papa Pio II
Pope Pius II
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Duc Philippe III le Bon (Valois)
Duke Philip III the Good (Valois)
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
France
King Alfonso V (Aragon)
Jacopo Piccinino
1455
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