Pope Gregory XV (r. 1621–1623) created eleven cardinals in four consistories:
Pope Gregory XV, born Alessandro Ludovisi, was Pope from 9 February 1621 to his death in 1623.
Ludovico Ludovisi was an Italian cardinal and statesman of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an art connoisseur who formed a famous collection of antiquities, housed at the Villa Ludovisi in Rome.
A cardinal-nephew was a cardinal elevated by a pope who was that cardinal's relative. The practice of creating cardinal-nephews originated in the Middle Ages, and reached its apex during the 16th and 17th centuries. The last cardinal-nephew was named in 1689 and the practice was extinguished in 1692. The word nepotism originally referred specifically to this practice, when it appeared in the English language about 1669. From the middle of the Avignon Papacy (1309–1377) until Pope Innocent XII's anti-nepotism bull, Romanum decet pontificem (1692), a pope without a cardinal-nephew was the exception to the rule. Every Renaissance pope who created cardinals appointed a relative to the College of Cardinals, and the nephew was the most common choice, although one of Alexander VI's creations was his own son.
All the new cardinals received titular churches on 17 May 1621.
Francesco Sacrati was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Cesena (1622–1623), Cardinal-Priest of San Matteo in Merulana (1621–1623), and Titular Archbishop of Damascus (1612–1622).
Ippolito Aldobrandini was a Catholic Cardinal. He served as Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from 1623 to 1638. Pope Clement VIII, whose birth name was also Ippolito Aldobrandini, was his great-uncle.
Both cardinals received the titular churches on 30 August 1621.
Lucio Sanseverino (1565–1623) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Marcantonio Gozzadini was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal.
Cosimo de Torres also Cosmo de Torres and Cosma de Torres (1584–1642) was a Roman Catholic cardinal who served as Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere (1641–1642), Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio (1623–1641), Archbishop of Monreale (1634–1642), Bishop of Perugia (1624–1634), Apostolic Nuncio to Poland (1621–1622), and Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto (1621–1622).
Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac, commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607 and was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered.
The papal conclave of 1758, convoked after the death of Pope Benedict XIV, it elected Cardinal Carlo Rezzonico of Venice, who took the name Clement XIII.
Pope Innocent X created 40 cardinals in 8 consistories:
Giulio Cesare Sacchetti was an Italian Catholic Cardinal and was twice included in the French Court's list of acceptable candidates for the Papacy, in 1644 and 1655.
Giambattista Altieri was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.
Luigi Capponi was an Italian Catholic cardinal who became archbishop of Ravenna.
Giovanni Doria, called Giannettino, the son of Giovanni Andrea Doria, 6th Prince of Melfi, and Princess Zenobia Doria del Carretto, 5th Princess of Melfi.
Pope Alexander VI created 43 new cardinals in 9 consistories:
Pope Innocent XI (1676–1689) created forty three new cardinals in two consistories:
Pope Gregory XIV created five new cardinals in two consistories:
Pope Julius III created twenty new cardinals in four consistories:
Pope Urban VIII created seventy four new cardinals in eight consistories:
Pope Alexander VII created thirty eight new cardinals in six consistories:
Pope Clement XI created 69 cardinals in 15 consistories:
Pope Sixtus V created 33 new cardinals in eight consistories:
Giuseppe Acquaviva was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Archbishop of Thebae (1621–1634).
Alfonso Gonzaga was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Archbishop of Rhodus (1621–1649).
Giovanni Garzia Mellini was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1629), Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina (1627–1629), Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1623–1625), Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (1622–1629), Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati (1608–1627), Archbishop of Imola (1607–1611), and Apostolic Nuncio to Spain (1605–1607).
Alessandro Cesarini, iuniore was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Eustachio (1638–1644), Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin (1637–1638), Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania (1636–1638), Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano (1632–1637), and Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica (1627–1632).