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Matteo Orsini

October 29, 2023

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Matteo Orsini (died probably on 18 August 1340) was an Italian Dominican friar and Cardinal.

Matteo Orsini

He was the nephew of Cardinal Francesco Napoleone Orsini (1295–1312), who was himself the nephew of Pope Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini).[1]

His early studies were at Bologna, where he studied law and took the Baccalaureate.[2]

He was Canon of the Church of S. Etienne in Châlons sur Saône.[3] He entered the Dominican Order at the Convent of S. Jacques in Paris, around 1294, and completed the full course of theology. He returned to Italy, but the Provincial of the Roman Province sent him back to Paris in 1306, where he obtained the Degree of Master. He taught biblical studies at Paris,[4] Florence, and Rome. In 1311 he attended the Capitulum Generale in Naples as socius ('companion') of the Definitor (elected delegate) of the Roman Province, the Provincial Fr. Lapus Cerli.[5] In 1314, the Capitulum Generale at London appointed him Vicar for the itinerant preachers of the Order.[6]

After teaching in Paris in 1316 Fr. Matteo Orsini, OP, is held to have taught at the Dominican studium generale at the Convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.[7] This would have meant that he was an in-house teacher in a Dominican convent studium: instructors in Philosophy were called Lector, instructors in Theology were called Magister; he was not a University Regent Master.[8]

He was Prior of the Convent of the Minerva.[6] He won distinction by his zeal for the spread of the Order, and was elected Provincial of the Roman Province in 1322 in the provincial Chapter at Orvieto.[9] In 1323, during a meeting of the Chapter of the Roman Province at Città di Castello (Tiferno), he and the Definitores were attacked by a deranged novice, Fr. Jacobus Dombellinghi, who injured Fr. Matteo with his sword.[10] He attended the General Chapter of the Order at Bordeaux in June 1324. On his return from the General Chapter he fell into a serious illness which almost cost him his life.[11] In 1326, Fr. Matteo was relieved of his duty as Provincial of the Roman Province and succeeded by Fr. Bertramus Monaldeschi, who was elected by the General Chapter meeting in Paris.[12] Fr. Matteo was appointed Vicar for the Master General in Italy.[13]

Orsini's service as Vicar of the Master General was short-lived. On 20 October 1326, the pope named Matteo Orsini, OP, Bishop of Girgenti (Agrigento), in Sicily, and then, six months later (15 June 1327), transferred him to the archiepiscopal see of Siponto, (Manfredonia, Southern Italy).[14] He arrived in Siponto on 22 April 1327, according to Pompeo Sarnelli,[15] which is completely impossible chronologically, since Fr. Matteo was not appointed until 15 June 1327. And in any case he was named a cardinal in December 1327, and on 11 January 1328 a successor to him at Siponto was appointed by Pope John XXII.[16]

In 1326, the difficulties over the office of Emperor between the Habsburgs and the Wittelsbach Louis the Bavarian brought increased danger to the city of Rome. The Pope was still hostile to Louis, having excommunicated him repeatedly, and yet Louis intended to be crowned King of the Lombards and Holy Roman Emperor, which involved a visit to Italy and especially Rome. The Romans, fearing that they would be the target of Louis' wrath, wanted the Pope back in Rome.[17] The government authorized the vicars in Rome of King Robert the Wise of Naples, Pandulf Count of Anguillara and Annibaldo de Annibaldis, to write to the Pope, rehearsing the difficulties that Rome was suffering because of the absence of the Pope and Roman Curia, and demanding his immediate return. John XXII wrote to the Romans on 20 January 1327, expressing his loving concern, but also indicating obstacles to a visit. He also wrote to Giacomo Savelli in Rome,[18] urging him to keep the Romans from offering obedience to Louis of Bavaria. The Romans replied with an embassy. While holding the post of Provincial of the Roman Province Fr. Matteo Orsini was appointed an Ambassador (Orator)[19] of the embassy deputed by the Romans to invite John XXII to transfer his residence back to Rome from Avignon.[20] In answer to Fr. Matteo Orsini's addresses, the Pope replied to the Romans again in a letter of 8 June 1327, emphasizing the danger that Louis the Bavarian represented, and the impossibility of travelling to Rome just at that time. A second embassy was sent in June, more for form's sake, advising the Pope of what they were going to be compelled to do, than in expectation of action.[21] The expected revolution and change of government in Rome duly took place. Louis the Bavarian entered Rome, and was crowned at Saint Peter's, not by papal authority but by authority of the People of Rome. Despite this political disaster, Pope John XXII never went to Rome.[22]

Pope John XXII made Orsini a cardinal along with nine others at the Consistory of 18 December 1327,[23] and assigned him the titular Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo on Monte Celio. He was promoted to Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina on 18 December 1338 by Pope Benedict XII (1334–1342). This promotion was a matter of seniority, not virtue or merit.[24]

It is sometimes said that Cardinal Matteo Orsini was Archbishop of Palermo from 1334 to 1338.[25] This is incorrect. His cousin, Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, the incumbent Archbishop since October 1320, did not die until 27 August 1335, and a successor, Archbishop Theobaldus, was appointed by Pope Benedict XII on 24 April 1336.[26] The time span is therefore some eight months, not four or five years, and it was not ended by his promotion to the See of Sabina. As Eubel points out,[27] Cardinal Matteo was Administrator of the Diocese of Palermo during the Sede Vacante, not the actual Archbishop.

After the death of Cardinal Pierre des Chappes on 24 March 1336, Cardinal Matteo became prior presbyterorum (Protopriest), as a matter of strict seniority and precedence. This was not an office, only a status. In documents issued in the name of the College of Cardinals, however, he was expected to sign and seal the document, along with the senior Cardinal-Bishop and senior Cardinal-Deacon. But in his absence, the next most senior cardinal took his place.

The Cardinal continued, in various ways, to promote the welfare of the Dominican Order, richly endowing the Convent of St. Dominic in Bologna.[28]

Cardinal Matteo Orsini, OP, died in Avignon on 18 August 1340, and was buried in the Church of the Dominicans.[28] His body was later transferred to Rome, where it was buried in the Sacristy of the Dominican church of S. Maria sopra Minerva.[29] He had built a chapel in honor of Saint Catherine of Siena in that church;[30] the saint's remains now lie beneath the High Altar of S. Maria sopra Minerva. In 1630, when the Sacristy of the church was being renovated, Cardinal Matteo's remains were moved into the Church, and now lie in the same tomb as Cardinal Latino Malabranca Orsini, next to the statue of the Risen Christ, near the High Altar.

References edit

 
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  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Orsini". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Orsini
  1. ^ Touron, p. 201. Eugenio Gamurrini, Istoria genealogica delle famiglie nobili Toscana et Umbre (Florence 1671), pp. 19-20.
  2. ^ Pius Thomas Masetti, Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum I (Romae 1864), p. 316. Touron, p. 202.
  3. ^ Pius Thomas Masetti, Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum I (Romae 1864), p. 312.
  4. ^ The Acta Capitulorum of 1315 states: Assignamus ad legendum sentencias Parisius isto anno fratrem Mattheum de Ursinis; et providemus, quantum nostra interest, de Fratre Michaele de Furno, quod legat sentencias Parisius in anno sequenti. In other words, Orsini was assigned for one year to teach bible at the Paris Convent of the Dominicans. B. Reichert, Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum historica Tomus IV (Roma 1899), p. 86.
  5. ^ Masetti, pp. 307-311.
  6. ^ a b Masetti, p. 312.
  7. ^ Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum. ex Typographia Rev. Cam. Apostolicae. 1864. p. 312. De annis et de locis in quibus docuit non satis accurate possumus loqui.... Illud certum est ab an. 1307 ad 1320 docendo jugiter operam dedisse: Parisiis vero an 1316 ut ex actibus Cap. Aretini 1315 constat. Romae vero docuisse tradunt Fontana et Altamura, aliique recentiores, eos Touron excipit, qui etiam refert praefecturam Minervitani Coenobii; de his omnibus silent articult necrologici.
  8. ^ Pius Thomas Masetti, Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum I (Romae 1864), pp. 142-153.
  9. ^ Lorenzo Cardella, Memorie delle cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa Tomo 2 (Roma 1792), p. 129.
  10. ^ Masetti, p. 313, derived from the Acta of the Roman Province.
  11. ^ Masetti, p. 313.
  12. ^ Masetti, p. 318.
  13. ^ Touron, p. 202. Masetti, p. 312. On his duties, see Daniel Antonin Mortier, Histoire des Maîtres généraux de l'Ordre des Frères Prêcheurs III (Paris 1907), p. 23-24.
  14. ^ Pompeo Sarnelli, Cronologia de' vescovi ed Archvescovi Sipontini (Manfredonia 1680), pp. 235-239. it:Arcidiocesi di Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo (in Italian)
  15. ^ Pompeo Sarnelli, Cronologia de' vescovi ed Archvescovi Sipontini (Manfredonia 1680), p. 237.
  16. ^ Eubel, p. 453.
  17. ^ J.-B. Christophe, Histoire de la Papauté pendant le XIVe siècle Tome premier (Paris 1853), pp. 362-365.
  18. ^ Savelli, the Papal Vicar in temporalibus in Rome, had been ousted in the autumn of 1326. Gregorovius VI, p. 105.
  19. ^ probably in the autumn of 1326. His success at deftly scolding the Pope, and yet maintaining the papal dignity and not embarrassing him, may have led to Fr. Matteo's appointment as Bishop of Agrigento.
  20. ^ F. Ughelli-N. Colet, Italia sacra (Venice 1721), p. 844, places this embassy in 1325.
  21. ^ Gregorovius VI, p. 136. J.-B. Christophe, Histoire de la Papauté pendant le XIVe siècle Tome premier (Paris 1853), pp. 365-369.
  22. ^ Augustinus Theiner (Editor), Caesaris S. R. E. Cardinalis Baronii, Od. Raynaldi et Jac. Laderchii Annales Ecclesiastici Tomus Vigesimus Quartus, 1313–1333 (Barri-Ducis: Ludovicus Guerin 1872), under the year 1327, § 4-14, pp. 313-317
  23. ^ Conradus Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi I editio altera (Monasterii 1913), p. 16.
  24. ^ Eubel, p. 38.
  25. ^ See Mortier, pp. 208-209.
  26. ^ Eubel, p. 388.
  27. ^ Eubel p. 338, n. 9. Masetti, p. 315. Touron, p. 208.
  28. ^ a b Masetti, p. 315.
  29. ^ Touron, p. 211.
  30. ^ Touron, p. 210. Masetti, pp. 315 and 317.

Bibliography edit

  • Antoine Touron, Histoire des homes illustres de l' Ordre de Saint Dominique Tome II (Paris 1745), 201-210 (in French).
  • Pius Thomas Masetti, Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum I (Romae 1864), pp. 311–317. (in Latin).
  • Ferdinand Gregorovius, The History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages Volume VI (translated by A. Hamilton) (London: George Bell 1906).
  • Stefano Forte, "Il cardinal Matteo Orsini OP e il suo testamento," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 37 (1967) 181-276 (in Italian).
  • Blake R. Beattie, Angelus Pacis: The Legation of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1326–1334 (Leiden: Brill 2007).

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For other uses see Matteo Orsini disambiguation Matteo Orsini died probably on 18 August 1340 was an Italian Dominican friar and Cardinal Matteo OrsiniHe was the nephew of Cardinal Francesco Napoleone Orsini 1295 1312 who was himself the nephew of Pope Nicholas III Giovanni Gaetano Orsini 1 His early studies were at Bologna where he studied law and took the Baccalaureate 2 He was Canon of the Church of S Etienne in Chalons sur Saone 3 He entered the Dominican Order at the Convent of S Jacques in Paris around 1294 and completed the full course of theology He returned to Italy but the Provincial of the Roman Province sent him back to Paris in 1306 where he obtained the Degree of Master He taught biblical studies at Paris 4 Florence and Rome In 1311 he attended the Capitulum Generale in Naples as socius companion of the Definitor elected delegate of the Roman Province the Provincial Fr Lapus Cerli 5 In 1314 the Capitulum Generale at London appointed him Vicar for the itinerant preachers of the Order 6 After teaching in Paris in 1316 Fr Matteo Orsini OP is held to have taught at the Dominican studium generale at the Convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva 7 This would have meant that he was an in house teacher in a Dominican convent studium instructors in Philosophy were called Lector instructors in Theology were called Magister he was not a University Regent Master 8 He was Prior of the Convent of the Minerva 6 He won distinction by his zeal for the spread of the Order and was elected Provincial of the Roman Province in 1322 in the provincial Chapter at Orvieto 9 In 1323 during a meeting of the Chapter of the Roman Province at Citta di Castello Tiferno he and the Definitores were attacked by a deranged novice Fr Jacobus Dombellinghi who injured Fr Matteo with his sword 10 He attended the General Chapter of the Order at Bordeaux in June 1324 On his return from the General Chapter he fell into a serious illness which almost cost him his life 11 In 1326 Fr Matteo was relieved of his duty as Provincial of the Roman Province and succeeded by Fr Bertramus Monaldeschi who was elected by the General Chapter meeting in Paris 12 Fr Matteo was appointed Vicar for the Master General in Italy 13 Orsini s service as Vicar of the Master General was short lived On 20 October 1326 the pope named Matteo Orsini OP Bishop of Girgenti Agrigento in Sicily and then six months later 15 June 1327 transferred him to the archiepiscopal see of Siponto Manfredonia Southern Italy 14 He arrived in Siponto on 22 April 1327 according to Pompeo Sarnelli 15 which is completely impossible chronologically since Fr Matteo was not appointed until 15 June 1327 And in any case he was named a cardinal in December 1327 and on 11 January 1328 a successor to him at Siponto was appointed by Pope John XXII 16 In 1326 the difficulties over the office of Emperor between the Habsburgs and the Wittelsbach Louis the Bavarian brought increased danger to the city of Rome The Pope was still hostile to Louis having excommunicated him repeatedly and yet Louis intended to be crowned King of the Lombards and Holy Roman Emperor which involved a visit to Italy and especially Rome The Romans fearing that they would be the target of Louis wrath wanted the Pope back in Rome 17 The government authorized the vicars in Rome of King Robert the Wise of Naples Pandulf Count of Anguillara and Annibaldo de Annibaldis to write to the Pope rehearsing the difficulties that Rome was suffering because of the absence of the Pope and Roman Curia and demanding his immediate return John XXII wrote to the Romans on 20 January 1327 expressing his loving concern but also indicating obstacles to a visit He also wrote to Giacomo Savelli in Rome 18 urging him to keep the Romans from offering obedience to Louis of Bavaria The Romans replied with an embassy While holding the post of Provincial of the Roman Province Fr Matteo Orsini was appointed an Ambassador Orator 19 of the embassy deputed by the Romans to invite John XXII to transfer his residence back to Rome from Avignon 20 In answer to Fr Matteo Orsini s addresses the Pope replied to the Romans again in a letter of 8 June 1327 emphasizing the danger that Louis the Bavarian represented and the impossibility of travelling to Rome just at that time A second embassy was sent in June more for form s sake advising the Pope of what they were going to be compelled to do than in expectation of action 21 The expected revolution and change of government in Rome duly took place Louis the Bavarian entered Rome and was crowned at Saint Peter s not by papal authority but by authority of the People of Rome Despite this political disaster Pope John XXII never went to Rome 22 Pope John XXII made Orsini a cardinal along with nine others at the Consistory of 18 December 1327 23 and assigned him the titular Church of SS Giovanni e Paolo on Monte Celio He was promoted to Cardinal Bishop of Sabina on 18 December 1338 by Pope Benedict XII 1334 1342 This promotion was a matter of seniority not virtue or merit 24 It is sometimes said that Cardinal Matteo Orsini was Archbishop of Palermo from 1334 to 1338 25 This is incorrect His cousin Giovanni Gaetano Orsini the incumbent Archbishop since October 1320 did not die until 27 August 1335 and a successor Archbishop Theobaldus was appointed by Pope Benedict XII on 24 April 1336 26 The time span is therefore some eight months not four or five years and it was not ended by his promotion to the See of Sabina As Eubel points out 27 Cardinal Matteo was Administrator of the Diocese of Palermo during the Sede Vacante not the actual Archbishop After the death of Cardinal Pierre des Chappes on 24 March 1336 Cardinal Matteo became prior presbyterorum Protopriest as a matter of strict seniority and precedence This was not an office only a status In documents issued in the name of the College of Cardinals however he was expected to sign and seal the document along with the senior Cardinal Bishop and senior Cardinal Deacon But in his absence the next most senior cardinal took his place The Cardinal continued in various ways to promote the welfare of the Dominican Order richly endowing the Convent of St Dominic in Bologna 28 Cardinal Matteo Orsini OP died in Avignon on 18 August 1340 and was buried in the Church of the Dominicans 28 His body was later transferred to Rome where it was buried in the Sacristy of the Dominican church of S Maria sopra Minerva 29 He had built a chapel in honor of Saint Catherine of Siena in that church 30 the saint s remains now lie beneath the High Altar of S Maria sopra Minerva In 1630 when the Sacristy of the church was being renovated Cardinal Matteo s remains were moved into the Church and now lie in the same tomb as Cardinal Latino Malabranca Orsini next to the statue of the Risen Christ near the High Altar References edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Matteo Orsini nbsp This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Herbermann Charles ed 1913 Orsini Catholic Encyclopedia New York Robert Appleton Company CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Orsini Touron p 201 Eugenio Gamurrini Istoria genealogica delle famiglie nobili Toscana et Umbre Florence 1671 pp 19 20 Pius Thomas Masetti Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum I Romae 1864 p 316 Touron p 202 Pius Thomas Masetti Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum I Romae 1864 p 312 The Acta Capitulorum of 1315 states Assignamus ad legendum sentencias Parisius isto anno fratrem Mattheum de Ursinis et providemus quantum nostra interest de Fratre Michaele de Furno quod legat sentencias Parisius in anno sequenti In other words Orsini was assigned for one year to teach bible at the Paris Convent of the Dominicans B Reichert Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum historica Tomus IV Roma 1899 p 86 Masetti pp 307 311 a b Masetti p 312 Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum ex Typographia Rev Cam Apostolicae 1864 p 312 De annis et de locis in quibus docuit non satis accurate possumus loqui Illud certum est ab an 1307 ad 1320 docendo jugiter operam dedisse Parisiis vero an 1316 ut ex actibus Cap Aretini 1315 constat Romae vero docuisse tradunt Fontana et Altamura aliique recentiores eos Touron excipit qui etiam refert praefecturam Minervitani Coenobii de his omnibus silent articult necrologici Pius Thomas Masetti Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum I Romae 1864 pp 142 153 Lorenzo Cardella Memorie delle cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa Tomo 2 Roma 1792 p 129 Masetti p 313 derived from the Acta of the Roman Province Masetti p 313 Masetti p 318 Touron p 202 Masetti p 312 On his duties see Daniel Antonin Mortier Histoire des Maitres generaux de l Ordre des Freres Precheurs III Paris 1907 p 23 24 Pompeo Sarnelli Cronologia de vescovi ed Archvescovi Sipontini Manfredonia 1680 pp 235 239 it Arcidiocesi di Manfredonia Vieste San Giovanni Rotondo in Italian Pompeo Sarnelli Cronologia de vescovi ed Archvescovi Sipontini Manfredonia 1680 p 237 Eubel p 453 J B Christophe Histoire de la Papaute pendant le XIVe siecle Tome premier Paris 1853 pp 362 365 Savelli the Papal Vicar in temporalibus in Rome had been ousted in the autumn of 1326 Gregorovius VI p 105 probably in the autumn of 1326 His success at deftly scolding the Pope and yet maintaining the papal dignity and not embarrassing him may have led to Fr Matteo s appointment as Bishop of Agrigento F Ughelli N Colet Italia sacra Venice 1721 p 844 places this embassy in 1325 Gregorovius VI p 136 J B Christophe Histoire de la Papaute pendant le XIVe siecle Tome premier Paris 1853 pp 365 369 Augustinus Theiner Editor Caesaris S R E Cardinalis Baronii Od Raynaldi et Jac Laderchii Annales Ecclesiastici Tomus Vigesimus Quartus 1313 1333 Barri Ducis Ludovicus Guerin 1872 under the year 1327 4 14 pp 313 317 Conradus Eubel Hierarchia catholica medii aevi I editio altera Monasterii 1913 p 16 Eubel p 38 See Mortier pp 208 209 Eubel p 388 Eubel p 338 n 9 Masetti p 315 Touron p 208 a b Masetti p 315 Touron p 211 Touron p 210 Masetti pp 315 and 317 Bibliography editAntoine Touron Histoire des homes illustres de l Ordre de Saint Dominique Tome II Paris 1745 201 210 in French Pius Thomas Masetti Monumenta et antiquitates veteris disciplinae Ordinis Praedicatorum I Romae 1864 pp 311 317 in Latin Ferdinand Gregorovius The History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages Volume VI translated by A Hamilton London George Bell 1906 Stefano Forte Il cardinal Matteo Orsini OP e il suo testamento Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 37 1967 181 276 in Italian Blake R Beattie Angelus Pacis The Legation of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini 1326 1334 Leiden Brill 2007 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Matteo Orsini amp oldid 1178998616, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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