papal nuncio Giovanni Battista Rinuccini

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Giovanni Battista Rinuccini was a 17th-century Italian archbishop and papal nuncio to Ireland who played a major political and religious role during the Irish Confederate Wars by championing militant Catholic interests against more moderate factions.

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instanceOf 17th-century Italian person
Roman Catholic archbishop
diplomat
human
papal nuncio
advocated refusal of peace terms that did not guarantee full Catholic rights
appointedAsArchbishopOfFermo 1625
appointedAsPapalNuncioToIreland 1645
appointedBy Pope Urban VIII NERFINISHED
arrivalInIrelandDate 1645-10
arrivedIn Ireland NERFINISHED
birthDate 1592-09-15
birthPlace Rome
brought arms for Irish Catholic forces
money for the Irish Confederate cause
munitions for Irish Catholic forces
papal indulgences for Irish Catholic soldiers
burialPlace Fermo Cathedral NERFINISHED
conflictWith moderate Confederate leaders in Kilkenny
countryOfCitizenship Grand Duchy of Tuscany NERFINISHED
deathDate 1653-12-05
deathPlace Fermo NERFINISHED
education canon law
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName Rinuccini NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Catholic Counter-Reformation politics
ecclesiastical diplomacy
givenName Giovanni Battista NERFINISHED
ideology militant Counter-Reformation Catholicism
influenced Supreme Council of the Irish Catholic Confederation NERFINISHED
languageSpoken Italian
Latin
memberOf Roman Curia NERFINISHED
name Giovanni Battista Rinuccini NERFINISHED
notableEvent Irish Confederate Wars NERFINISHED
notableWork Mission as papal nuncio to Ireland
opposed moderate Confederate Catholic faction seeking compromise with Charles I
participatedIn Irish Confederate Wars NERFINISHED
Wars of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED
positionHeld Archbishop of Fermo NERFINISHED
Papal nuncio to Ireland NERFINISHED
recalledBy Holy See NERFINISHED
rejected 1646 peace terms negotiated by the Supreme Council with James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
representativeOf Pope Innocent X NERFINISHED
residence Kilkenny NERFINISHED
returnToItalyDate 1649
role papal legate to the Irish Catholic Confederation
sentBy Holy See NERFINISHED
supported continuation of war against English Parliamentarian forces
militant Catholic faction in Confederate Ireland

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Ormondist faction within Confederate Ireland conflictWith papal nuncio Giovanni Battista Rinuccini