Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni

Girolamo (French Jérome ) Grimaldi Cavalleroni ( born August 20, 1597 Genoa; † November 4, 1685 in Aix -en- Provence ) was a cardinal and archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

The son of Giacomo Grimaldi, a senator of Genoa and his wife Girolama di Agostino de Mari was sent to Rome for his education. He introduced himself probably with the assistance of his uncle Domenico Grimaldi, the Archbishop of Avignon, in the service of the Church. In 1621 he was Vizelegat of Viterbo and 1626 after the death of ODOARDO Farnese also governor of the province. From 26th April 1628 to March 1632 he was governor of the Eternal City. As a special envoy of the Pope at the court of Ferdinand II, he represented the interests of the Holy See. 1634 he was appointed governor of the city of Perugia and the Duchy of Urbino.

On February 25, 1641, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria and in the same year as apostolic nuncio in France. The Titular Archbishop of Amasea Faustus Poli consecrated him on March 3 of the same year the bishop; Co-consecrators were Alphonse Sacratti, Bishop of Comacchio and Sigismondo Taddei, Bishop of Bitetto.

On July 13, 1643 Urban VIII took him as a cardinal priest with the titular church Sant'Eusebio to the College of Cardinals and Innocent X appointed him in 1648 to the Archbishop of Aix - a position which he held until his death on 4 November 1685. His political intrigues and his meteoric rise has meant that he is regarded as alter ego of Jules Mazarin. Ironically, he never achieved the political power and the glory of Mazarin, although he was Mazarin's principal consecrator.

Grimaldi was a patron of the French theologian, writer and priest Jean Cabassut, who accompanied him to Rome, and it was Grimaldi, the Cabassut helped to expand his work Notitia Conciliorum and entitled Notitia Ecclesiastica historiarum, Conciliorum et canonum invicem collatorum in to be published 1680.

Grimaldi is now considered a strong advocate of the interests of France. He should have his archdiocese well managed.

During his twenty -year tenure as archbishop he built in the city Puyricard at enormous expense an episcopal palace, which is known as the Château Grimaldi today. The cardinal died on November 4, 1685 at the age of 88 years in Aix -en- Provence and is buried in the cathedral of Aix -en- Provence.