Era: 1592-1605 Ippolito Aldobrandini was born at Fano in 1536, the... read more →
Era: 1605 Alessandro de’ Medici was born on June 2,... read more →
Pope PAUL V 1550-1621 Following the very brief reign of Pope Leo XI, who was pope for 27 days, rival factions again consumed... read more →
Era: 1590-1591 Niccolo Sfondrati was born near Milan on February 11,... read more →
Era: 1591 Giovanni Fachinetti was born in Bologna in 1519 to... read more →
Era: 1590 Sixtus V’s death on August 27, 1590, ended the... read more →
Era: 1585-1590 Felice Peretti, the son of a farm worker, was born... read more →
Era: 1572-1585 Ugo Boncompagni was born in Bologna in 1502, the fourth... read more →
Era: 1566-1572 Antony Ghislieri was born to humble parents in 1504.... read more →
Era: 1559-1565 Gian Angelo Medici, born in 1499 in Milan to... read more →
Marcellus II 1555-1555 Marcello Cervini de Spannocchi born 1501 There are a few characters in whom the Renaissance spirit and the... read more →
Era: 1550-1555 Giovanni del Monte was born in Rome in 1487, the... read more →
Era: 1523-1534 Giulio de’ Medici, the illegitimate son of Giuliano de’Medici, was born in 1479 shortly after the murder of his father in the cathedral... read more →
Era: 1534-1549 Alessandro Farnese, an Italian from near Viterbo, was the... read more →
Pope Adrian VI 1522-1523 Some background about the predecessor of Pope Adrian... read more →
Era: 1513-1521 In order to understand the papacy of Pope Leo X,... read more →
Era: 1492-1503 Roderigo do Borja y Borja (Borgia) was born in... read more →
Era: 1503-1513 In 1453, Guiliano della Rovere was born to humble parents... read more →
Era: 1471-1484 Francesco della Rovere, the son of wealthy merchants, was born... read more →
Era: 1464-1471 Pietro Barbo, the son of wealthy Venetian merchants intended... read more →
Era: 1316-1334 Jacques d'Euse, a Frenchman from Cahors, was born about... read more →
Era: 1458-1464 Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini was born to an aristocratic, if impoverished,... read more →
Era: 1370-1378 Pierre Roger de Beaufort, an aristocratic Frenchman from the Limousin,... read more →
Callixtus III 1455 – 1458 Upon the death of Nicholas V in 1455, the first Spaniard was elected Pope, taking the name... read more →
Pope Nicholas V 1447 - 1455 He was born Tommaso Parentucelli, a man of sincere piety with simple and temperate habits. He was entirely free... read more →
Era: 1294-1303 Benedetto Caetani was born in 1235 at Agnani to an... read more →
Era: 1265-1268 Pope Clement IV (1265 – 1268) Guy Foulques, a Frenchman... read more →
Era: 1294 Bitter wrangling and infighting and the influence of monarchies from... read more →
Era: 1198-1216 Pope Innocent III (1198 – 1216) Lotario de’ Conti was... read more →
(314 – 335) The Church continued to thrive during the peaceful reign of Emperor Constantine the Great. Twenty-one days after the death of Pope... read more →
Era: 1099-1118 Upon the death of Pope Urban II (who was... read more →
Pope Alexander III was the 170th pope. He served for nearly 22 years and remained pope until he passed away from natural causes. This article will... read more →