Nicolò Albertini

Niccolò Alberti ( Albertini and Aubertini ) OP ( * around 1250 in Prato, Italy, † April 27, 1321 in Avignon ), also known as Nicholas of Prato, was a cardinal of the Catholic Church.

His membership in the Tuscan noble family of the Alberti has already been asked by Dino Compagni and Alber Mussato in question. Politically, he was close to the Ghibellines. Alberti was first Minister General of the Dominicans. 1299 he was appointed by Boniface VIII in place of postulated by chapter candidates for bishop of Spoleto. Pope Benedict XI. , Who had also been Dominicans, appointed him on December 18, 1303 to Cardinal Bishop of Ostia. Nicholas was a close confidant of both Benedict and of his successor, Clement V

Nicholas was one of the cardinals who on June 29, 1312 Henry VII crowned in the Lateran Basilica to the Emperor in the name of Pope Clement V.. Nicholas was seen as pro- imperial, which in curial circles was rare in those days, and went for a balance between pope and emperor.