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See also:INNOCENT X . (Giovanni Battista Pamfili) was See also:born in See also:Rome on the 6th of May 1574, served successively as auditor of the See also:Rota, See also:nuncio to See also:Naples, See also:legate apostolic to See also:Spain, was made See also:cardinal in 1627, and succeeded See also:Urban VIII. as See also:pope on the 15th of See also:September 1644 . Throughout his pontificate See also:Innocent was completely dominated by his See also:sister-in-See also:law, Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, a woman of masculine spirit . There is no See also:reason to See also:credit the scandalous reports of an illicit See also:attachment . Nevertheless, the See also:influence of Donna Olimpia was baneful; and she made herself thoroughly detested for her inordinate ambition and rapacity . Urban VIII. had been See also:French in his sympathies; but the papacy now shifted to the See also:side of the Habsburgs, and there remained for nearly fifty years . Evidences of the See also:change were numerous: Innocent promoted See also:pro-See also:Spanish cardinals; attacked the See also:Barberini, proteges of See also:Mazarin, and sequestered their possessions; aided in quieting an insurrection in Naples, fomented by the See also:duke of See also:Guise; and refused to recognize the See also:independence of See also:Portugal, then at See also:war with Spain . As a See also:reward he obtained from Spain and Naples the recognition of ecclesiastical See also:immunity . In 1649 See also:Castro, which Urban VIII. had failed to take, was wrested from the See also:Farnese and annexed to the Papal States . The most worthy efforts of Innocent were directed to the reform of monastic discipline (1652) . His condemnation of See also:Jansenism (16J3) was met with the denial of papal See also:infallibility in matters of fact, and the controversy entered upon a new phase (see JANSENISM) . Although the pontificate of Innocent witnessed the See also:conversion of many See also:Protestant princes, the most notable being See also:Queen See also:Christina of See also:Sweden, the papacy had nevertheless suffered a perceptible decline in See also:prestige; it counted for little in the negotiations at See also:Munster, and its See also:solemn protest against the See also:peace of See also:Westphalia was entirely ignored .
Innocent died on the 7th of See also:January 1655, and was succeeded by See also: See also See also:Ranke, Popes (Eng. trans., See also:Austin), iii . 4o sqq . ; v . See also:Reumont, Gesch. der Stadt Rom. iii . 2, p . 623 sqq . ; See also:Brosch, Gesch. See also:des . Kirchenstaates (188o) i . 409 sqq.; and the extended bibliography in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, s.v . " Innocenz X." (T . F . |
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