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Marcellus II

Pope of the Catholic Church and bishop of Rome from 9 April to 1 May 1555

  • Child of Riccardo Cervini and Cassandra Benci
  • Dated 6 May 1501 CE – 1 May 1555 CE
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Overview

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Life

Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.

Belonged to

Offices held 6

  1. Template-Cardinal
    from 19 December 1539 CE cardinal Has references
  2. from 24 September 1540 CE Roman Catholic Bishop of Reggio Emilia Has references
  3. from 29 February 1544 CE Roman Catholic Bishop of Gubbio Has references
  4. from 1545 CE Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals
  5. 24 May 1550 CE – 9 April 1555 CE Prefect of the Vatican Library Number 1 in the sequence
  6. 19 April 1555 CE – 1 May 1555 CE Pope Number 222 in the sequence Succeeded Julius III · Succeeded by Paul IV

Family

The family of Marcellus II

Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.

Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.

As documented
The family as a list · 3

Family 3

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation

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Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

10 statements on this record

  • 6 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

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Data
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Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
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Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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