Category Archives: Ecclesiastical

Thomas Larkham or Larcome 1602–1669

 

He was born at Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1602, matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1619, and proceeded B.A. from Trinity Hall in 1622, and M.A. 1626. In 1622 he was living at Shobrooke, near Crediton, where he married. He was instituted vicar of Northam, near Bideford, in 1626, where his puritan views brought him into trouble. A petition against him was delivered about 1639, and he was proceeded against in the Consistory Court at Exeter. In 1640 Larkham left with his family for New England, going first to Massachusetts, but moved on to Dover called also then Northam.

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Size 26 x 20 cms
Price £18.00

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Rinaldo d’Este 1618-1672

Cardinal Rinaldo d’Este was born in 1618, the son of Alfonso III d’Este, Duke of Modena and Isabella of Savoy. He was the brother of Francesco d’Este who succeeded his father as Duke of Modena.. He was elected Bishop of Reggio Emilia in December 1650 and participated in the Papal conclave of 1655 which elected Pope Alexander VII, the conclave of 1667, which elected Pope Clement IX and the conclave of 1669–1670, which elected Pope Clement X. On 24 August 1671 he opted for the order of bishops and was appointed Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina.
Subject nationality: Italian

Subject gender: Male

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Size 22 x 16 cms

Price £25.00

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Nicolò Acciaioli 1629-1719

Niccolò Acciaiuoli, or Acciaioli or Acciajuoli , was an Italian cardinal. He belonged to the noble Florentine Acciaiuoli family, the third of the ten children of senator Ottaviano Acciaiuoli and Maria Acciauioli and was the uncle of Cardinal Filippo Acciaiuoli (1700 – 1766)
Size 8 x 16 cms
Price £14.00

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Cardinal Álvaro Cienfuegos 1657-1739

Charles of Austria named Cienfuegos his envoy to Portugal and retained him as an advisor. At the end of the war of 1714, Charles VI, then emperor, called him to Venice and in 1720 succeeded in having him named cardinal. In 1722 he was consecrated bishop of Catania and in 1724 archbishop of Monreal. Cienfuegos had to renounce his archbishopric when the Bourbons occupied the kingdom of the two Sicilies. He was then given the see of Fünfkirchen by the emperor (1735), although he continued to live in Rome as the emperor’s legate and held important posts in Roman congregations until his death.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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Pope Urban VIII Urbanus 1568-1644

Pope Urban VIII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in 1644. He expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts and a reformer of Church missions
Size 7 x 11 cms
Price £14.00

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