Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: History of Procida . 24 May 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202821/http://www.procidatour.it/en/storia.asp . 3 March 2016 .
  2. Web site: The Stability of Monuments over Coastal Cliffs in the Bay of Napoli . . 6 . 24 May 2016.
  3. Web site: Cheney . David M.. Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S. . Catholic-Hierarchy.org.