Giovanni Vitelleschi
Giovanni Vitelleschi | |
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| Archbishop of Florence | |
Engraved portrait of Giovanni Vitelleschi by Tobias Stimmer | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Florence |
| Appointed | 12 October 1435 |
| Term ended | 9 August 1437 |
| Predecessor | Amerigo Corsini |
| Successor | Ludovico Trevisan |
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| Created cardinal | 9 August 1437 by Pope Eugene IV |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Born | Giovanni Maria Vitelleschi 1396 |
| Died | 2 April 1440 (aged 43–44) |
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Giovanni Maria Vitelleschi (1396 – 2 April 1440) was an Italian cardinal and condottiere.
In 1434, Vitelleschi was the commander of the papal armies of Pope Eugene IV when the Colonna faction at Rome backed an insurrection that raised a temporary republic at Rome and exiled Eugene. Vitelleschi managed to recapture the city and had the Roman Senate declare him tertius pater patriae post Romulum ("the third Father of his Country since Romulus"). He remained powerful for a few years, but his intercepted correspondence indicated that he was conspiring against Eugene. Eugene had his former commander arrested and incarcerated in the Castel Sant'Angelo.