Papal conclave, 1464

Papal conclave August 1464
Coat of arms during the vacancy of the Holy See
Dates and location
28–30 August 1464 Apostolic Palace, Papal States
Key officials
Dean	Basilios Bessarion
Camerlengo	Ludovico Trevisan
Protopriest	Petrus von Schaumberg
Protodeacon	Rodrigo Borgia
Election
Ballots	1
Elected Pope
Pietro Barbo (Name taken: Paul II)

Papal conclave 1464 (August 28–30, 1464) convened after the death of Pope Pius II, elected as his successor cardinal Pietro Barbo, who took the name Pope Paul II.

List of participants

Pope Pius II died on August 14, 1464 in Ancona during preparations to the crusade against Ottoman Empire. At the time of his death, there were 29 living cardinals, but only 19 of them participated in the conclave:^[1]

Ten electors were Italian, four Spaniards, four French and one Greek. Six were creatures of Pius II, six of Eugenius IV, four of Callixtus III and three of Nicholas V.

Absentees

Ten cardinals (over 1/3 of the whole Sacred College) did not participate in this conclave:^[1]

Of the absentee cardinals five were creatures of Pius II, two of Eugenius IV, one of Callixtus III and one of Nicholas V. Pierre de Foix was the last surviving cardinal of the Great Western Schism and was elevated by Pisan Antipope John XXIII.

Among them there were three French, two Italians, two Germans, two Spaniards and the one Hungarian.

Candidates to the papacy

Bessarion, d'Estouteville, Trevisan, Carvajal, Torquemada and Barbo were mentioned as main papabili in the contemporary reports of the ambassadors and envoys of Italian Princes. Also Calandrini, Roverella and Capranica were referred as possible candidates.^[3]

The election of Pope Paul II

On the evening August 28 all cardinals present in Rome entered the conclave in Vatican, with the exception of ill Cardinal Torquemada, who joined the rest on the following day.

Initially, the electors prepared the conclave capitulation, and subscribed it all except Trevisan. The terms of the capitulation were the following:

• continue the Crusades against the Ottoman Empire
• leave Rome only with the consent of the majority of cardinals; the Italian Peninsula with the consent of all
• college of Cardinals limited to 24
• new pope limited to one cardinal-nephew
• creation of cardinals or advancement of benefices required the consent of the College

The first scrutiny took place on August 30. Cardinal Pietro Barbo received eleven votes, while the remaining fell to Trevisan and d'Estouteville.^[4] On the following accessus Barbo received three additional votes and was elected Pope.^[4] He took the name Paul II,^[5] and a little bit later protodeacon Rodrigo Borgia announced his election to the people of Rome with the ancient formula Habemus Papam. On September 6 new pope was solemnly crowned in the steps of the patriarchal Vatican Basilica by Cardinal Niccolò Fortiguerra, priest of the title of S. Cecilia.^[6]

Notes

Sources

• Ludwig von Pastor: "History of the popes vol. 4", London 1900
• Salvador Miranda: conclave of 1464
• Francis Burkle-Young “Papal elections in the Fifteenth Century: the election of Paul II

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