Letter from PF to the nuncio to France, Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno, 1627-05-28, Rome

Letter from PF to the nuncio to France, Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno, 1627-05-28, Rome

Cardinal rings

Letter from PF to the nuncio to France, Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno, letting him know about the response of the archbishop of Paris to Cardinal Bentivoglio (attached on a separate paper and filed not in this volume, but in the SOCG collection), regarding the cardinal ring fee issue. PF, in the presence of the pope, decided to write the following to the nuncio: a) that the archbishop's argument that the late Cardinal de Retz was not supposed to pay the cardinal ring fee is not valid, because Cardinals Gusman of Spain and Richelieu of France paid it, even though they had not received the capello (the cardinal hat); b) the nuncio should try to see if the ring fee could be obtained from the owners of the late Cardinal de Retz's property, since the archbishop and the other relatives are excusing themselves by saying that they are not his heirs. Prehaps in this manner, they would have decide to pay it.

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PF

APF LETTERE 6, 70v

1627-05-28

Addressed to Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno

Contemp. copy; not signed; Italian

Italian

Letter

35

Origin: Rome

Destination: [France]