Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Eminence |
Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona | |
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1591–1600 |
Consecration: | 13 October 1566 |
Consecrated By: | Pope Pius V |
Cardinal: | 26 February 1561 |
Created Cardinal By: | Pope Pius IV |
Rank: | Cardinal-Bishop |
Birth Place: | Naples, Kingdom of Naples |
Death Date: | 20 February 1600 (aged) |
Death Place: | Rome, Papal States |
Previous Post: | Bishop of Mileto (1566–73) |
Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona (1535/36–1600) was an Italian Cardinal, from Naples.
He was the son of condottiero Alfonso d'Avalos and Maria d'Aragona, from the family of the, Spanish nobility. In 1563, he constructed the Castello d'Avalos on Procida, a small island in the Gulf of Naples.[1] [2]
After a period as lay administrator (he was for a while Chancellor of the Kingdom of Naples, he was made bishop of Mileto in 1566, bishop of Sabina in 1586, bishop of Frascati in 1589, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1591.
In Spain, another clergyman member of this family was cardinal Gaspar Dávalos de la Cueva.