Papal election 1216 | |
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Dates and location | |
18 July 1216 Perugia | |
Key officials | |
Dean | Nicola de Romanis |
Camerlengo | Stefano di Ceccano |
Protopriest | Cinzio Cenci |
Protodeacon | Guido Pierleone |
Elected pope | |
Cencio Savelli Name taken: Honorius III | |
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The 1216 papal election (18 July), was convoked after the death of Pope Innocent III in Perugia (16 July 1216), elected Cardinal Cencio Camerario, [1] who took the name of Honorius III.
There were 25 cardinals in the College of Cardinals in July 1216, including 23 curial cardinals and two "external cardinals", who did not reside in the papal curia [2] It is known that 17 of them participated in the election: [3]
Eight cardinals, including six curial and two "external cardinals", were absent:
Elector | Cardinalatial title | Elevated | Elevator | Notes |
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Benedetto | Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | 3 June 1200 | Innocent III | |
Ruggiero di San Severino | Cardinal Priest of S. Eusebio | ca. 1178/80 | Alexander III | Archbishop of Benevento 1179-1221 ("external" cardinal) |
Leone Brancaleone, C.R.S.F. | Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme | 3 June 1200 | Innocent III | Papal legate in Lombardy |
Guala Bicchieri | Priest of SS. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti | 18 December 1204 | Innocent III | Papal legate in England |
Stephen Langton | S.R.E. cardinalis | 27 May 1206 | Innocent III | Archbishop of Canterbury 1207-1228; resigned this titulus S,. Crisogono after episcopal consecration in 1207; "external" cardinal |
Pietro Sasso | Priest of S. Pudenziana | 27 May 1206 | Innocent III | Archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian Basilica; papal legate in Germany |
Bertrannus | Deacon of S. Giorgio in Velabro | 19 May 1212 | Innocent III | |
Rainiero Capocci, O.Cist. | Deacon of S. Maria in Cosmedin | 5 March 1216 | Innocent III | Papal legate in Lombardy |
The cardinals assembled in Perugia two days after the death of Innocent III. They deliberated in the enclosure, [5] though it is not certain whether voluntarily or under pressure of the local authorities. [6] They decided to elect the new Pope by compromissum, it means, not by the whole Sacred College, but by the committee of few of them, empowered by the rest to appoint the new Pontiff. This time the committee included only two cardinal-bishops: Ugolino of Ostia and Guido of Palestrina. [7] On that same day, they elected Cardinal Cencio, called Camerario, aged 68, who accepted his election and took the name of Honorius III.