Giambattista Orsini

Giovanni Battista Orsini (also Giambattista Orsini, * 1450, † February 22, 1503 in Rome ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a nephew of Cardinal Latino Orsini.

Life

Orsini was taken on November 15, 1483 by Pope Sixtus IV as a cardinal in the College of Cardinals. His titular church of Santa Maria in Domnica was. 1493 he moved to the titular church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. In 1491 he was awarded by Innocent VIII the Archdiocese of Taranto, which he ruled as papal representative. On the side he was papal legate and administrator for the Romagna, Bologna and the March of Ancona, which were provinces of the Papal States at the time. In the conclave of 1492 was mainly at the instigation of Alexander VI. elected as the new pope.

Orsini represented with the head of the House Orsini, Duke of Gravina (probably Francesco Orsini ), in the Italian - French War, the interests of Florence and France. He was arrested by Alexander VI. , The father of Cesare Borgia and imprisoned in the dungeon of Castle Sant'Angelo, after he had been ordered on January 3, 1503 to an audience. There, he was poisoned according to some historical speculations of Alexander or his son, so that he died on 22 February the same year.