Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps
Mark parakeet from Hohenems, Marcus Sitticus of Hohenems, Markus Sittikus III, Marx parakeet III, Marco Sittico Altemps, ( born August 19, 1533 Hohenems, † February 15, 1595 in Rome).. Was 1561-1589 Bishop of Constance, also papal legate and cardinal.
Family
Markus Sittikus III. was the second son of coming from a small military nobility Wolf Dietrich von Ems (1507-1538), a Captain Charles V, and the Milanese Chiara de Medici. He was the brother of Jacob Hannibal von Hohenems, general of the troops of Charles V and Philip II, the cousin of Charles Borromeo and Federico Borromeo and the uncle by Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Prince Archbishop of Salzburg 1587-1612 and Markus Sittikus IV. von Hohenems ( the youngest son Jakob Hannibal ), Prince Archbishop of Salzburg from 1612 to 1619.
Life
Since 1550 was Markus Parrot of Hohenems, accompanied by his uncle Gian Giacomo de Medici, Marquis of Melegnano, one of the last violent condottieri of the Renaissance 1552, he took in the wake of Charles V at the Battle for the recovery of Metz against France in part, 1554 / 55 he participated in the siege of Siena and defended before the Tuscan port city of Piombino a naval assault of the Turks from, who had been sent by the French to the relief of Siena.
His uncle, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo de 'Medici was elected pope end of 1559 and received on 6 January 1560 as Pius IV the tiara. His numerous Italian and German nephew were immediately benefices to his power at the Roman court ensured. The Hohenems family was raised on 27 April 1560 Emperor Ferdinand I in the Imperial Count. Markus Sittikus received on May 29, 1560 Diocese of Cassano (Calabria ), without having first received the ecclesiastical orders. On 2 May, he was promoted to governor of the March of Ancona, and then sent as papal legate to the imperial court in Vienna. In the consistory of February 26, 1561 was his cardinal collection and in March the appointment as Cardinal -Deacon of the Roman titular church of Santi Apostoli XII, whose cardinal priest, he was in 1563.
His attempt in 1560 with papal aid to be coadjutor bishop of the diseased Christoph Metzler in Konstanz, foundered on the opposition of the cathedral chapter, pen needle and the Swiss Confederation. Only after a second attempt with the help of Rome, as well as through the support of Emperor Ferdinand I, he became successor Metzler.
Although Mark parakeet had enjoyed no theological training, he was first papal chamber clerics and 1561 created cardinal. As papal legate he was briefly represented at the 3rd Session of the Council of Trent and took later due to his diplomatic skill great influence on the elections of Pope Pius V, Gregory XIII. and Sixtus V..
Mark parakeet from Hohenems looked after because of its activities in Rome hardly to his affairs of the diocese of Constance. One of Pius V in 1567 conducted diocesan synod was the problem of the Catholic in the. Cantons of Switzerland also not govern because of their way of life reprimanded clergy.
As Cardinal von Hohenems is an urgent solution deputy refused to halt the particular detachment plans of the confederates of Constance stop, he joined in 1589 as bishop of Constance back. His successor was Cardinal Andrew of Austria.
Having previously held a number of significant titular churches in succession, Pope Gregory XIII appointed him. 1580 Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere.
Hohenems was at the conclave on 10 to January 30, 1592 ( Clement VIII ) one of the key opinion- Cardinals.
Mark parakeet from Hohenems was in Rome Palazzo Altemps and built in Frascati, Villa Mondragone.