Pietro Pileo di Prata
Pietro di Prata Pileo, often also Pileus de Prato (* 1330, † December 1401, Rome) was an Italian Count, Bishop, Cardinal and papal diplomat.
Origin
He came from a resident in northeast Italy dynasty of the Counts of Prata and was born as the son of Biaquino di Prata, Count of Porcia and Brugnera, and his wife Enselgarda da Carrara, from the most important family of Padua. Francesco I da Carrara (1325-1393), mayor of Padua and friend of the poet Francesco Petrarch, was his maternal cousin.
Life and work
The nobleman studied the then customary ecclesiastical sciences and was archpriest in the cathedral chapter of Padua.
On June 1, 1358, the election of the Earl Bishop of Treviso took place. Already on June 12, 1359 he became bishop of Padua; on January 23, 1370 Archbishop of Ravenna. With Pope Gregory XI. , Who designated him as of the date of January 3, 1371 to his legate, he was staying at that time in Bologna. In 1375 he made him his nuncio in Bruges.
In the consistory of September 18, 1378 him, Pope Urban VI. cardinal, whereupon Pietro di Prata Pileo resigned his appointment as Archbishop of Ravenna. The Pope appointed him legate in Germany, at the court of Count Louis II of Flanders.
At the same time he was commissioned to represent the pontiff in Denmark, Sweden and Norway; he corresponded with King Charles V of France and held in 1380 by the German King Wenceslas in Mainz. For Anne of Bohemia, the king's sister, mediated di Prata a very happy marriage with the English king Richard II during his stay in Germany Pietro di Prata Pileo visited many towns, monasteries and churches; For example, in 1380 Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, where you doped a measuring Foundation in memory, or in 1381, the groundbreaking ceremony, the Carthusian monastery Nuremberg. The prelate placed in the papal name of church ownership, took sometimes changes in the jurisdictions before ( the Palatine village Merzalben he proposed in 1381 by the Diocese of Metz to the diocese of Worms), complaints proved against religious dignitaries, granted indulgences (eg 1380 for the St. Mary's Church in Deep / Pfalz ), but also let the Eucharistic miracle of Boxtel focusing on and allowed by the decree of June 25, 1380 the local pilgrimage. Exist from the time of his legation numerous certificates issued by him in Mainz, Frankfurt, Worms, Speyer, Nuremberg and other places.
Then Pileo di Prata became the cardinal proto priest and legate in England; 1385, after his return, the Cardinal Bishop and Pastor of suburbicarian diocese of Frascati. Finally, he traveled to Naples to King Charles III. to reconcile with the Pope.
At the end of 1385 he was one of the five cardinals who issued a circular to the Roman clergy, setting out the acts of violence Pope Urban VI. criticized. Urban had him arrested, Cardinal di Prata escaped, however, and burned in 1386, in protest publicly his cardinal's hat on the main square of Pavia. He placed himself under the anti-pope Clement VII, who made him the administrator of the diocese of Viviers, his title of Cardinal recognized and sent him a new hat; Urban VI. however, excommunicated him on October 3, 1387th Pietro di Prata Pileo visited the anti-pope personally at Avignon and this sent him at the head of an army in 1388 to Northern Italy.
In October 1389 Urban VI died. Cardinal di Prata thereupon immediately by the anti-pope Clement VII from and submitted to the rightful Pope Boniface IX. This lifted the excommunication on, again recognized the dignity of Cardinal, and sent him again a red cardinal's hat. Because of the three received hats called Pietro di Prata Pileo Cardinal " Tricapella " ( the Dreihütigen ). On February 13, 1391, he was again chief shepherd of the diocese of Frascati. The Pope commissioned him in 1392, moreover, with the reorganization of the University of Perugia and appointed him in 1393 to his legate in Umbria. 1394 donated the Cardinal was named after him " Collegio Pratense ", a school for poor students in Padua. This institute, he also left his entire fortune in order to permanently secure 20 places in canon law.
On January 9, 1397 Cardinal di Prata finally returned to Rome, where the Pope appointed him his vicar-general. He celebrated in 1398 at the papal court the Christmas mass in the presence of seven cardinals. In December 1401 (some sources also mention the year 1400 ) he should have died. They sat di Prata at the cathedral of Padua; there, the contemporary tomb has received with its underlying representation on the sarcophagus.