Prospero Colonna (cardinal)

Prospero Colonna (* around 1410 in Rome, † March 24, 1463 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Prospero Colonna was the fifth child of Count Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and a nephew of Pope Martin V, who made ​​him a cardinal in pectore on 24 May 1426. The mentioned as Apostolic Notary Colonna was since June 1424 archdeacon of Canterbury, which he remained until 1434. After the Pope had his name published as Cardinal on November 8, 1430 and has elevated him to cardinal deacon of the titular church of S. Giorgio in Velabro, he in 1430, yet commendatory Casamari. Pope Eugene IV referred him on October 9, 1433 from the city of Rome, but rehabilitated him a short time later.

Since September 1437, Cardinal deacon, he was the Camerlengo of the Sacred College for the year 1439. The interested in archeology Cardinal forced the election of Pope Nicholas V and crowned him on March 19, 1447 the Pope. He accompanied him in 1449 to Spoleto, because in Rome there was the plague.

After the April 20, 1455 Calixtus III. had crowned the Pope, he was the favorite of the Duke of Milan in the conclave of 1458. But chose the college cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini, whom he crowned on September 3, 1458 when Pope Pius II. This sent him in 1460 to Mantua there to prepare a prince Meeting on the implementation of a crusade against the Turks.

Colonna, who was also archpriest of the Lateran basilica and a large library had participated, as voters in the conclaves of 1431, 1447, 1455 and 1458 in part.