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Paul IV
Paulus IV la
Pope of catholic church 1555-1559
- Child of Giovanni Antonio Carafa, Conte di Montorio and Vittoria Camponeschi
- Dated 28 June 1476 CE – 18 August 1559 CE
Pope
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Offices on record
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 10
- from 22 February 1549 CE Roman Catholic Archbishop of Naples Succeeded Ranuccio Farnese Has references
- 1553 CE – 1555 CE Dean of the College of Cardinals
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- 1553 CE – 23 May 1555 CE perpetual governor of the city of Velletri
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23 May 1555 CE – 18 August 1559 CE Pope Number 223 in the sequence Succeeded Marcellus II · Succeeded by Pius IV Has references
Family
The family of Paul IV
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.
The family as a list · 4
Family 4
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 religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Giovanni Antonio Carafa, Conte di Montorio - Mar 1516
- child of (mother) Vittoria Camponeschi
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of the house House of Carafa Italian noble family - married to married to: recorded as none
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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16 statements on this record
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