College of Cardinals (Principia Moderni IV Map Game)

The College of Cardinals is the collection of Cardinals within the Roman Catholic Church. Each Cardinal is appointed by the Pope and represents the upper echelon of the Catholic Church.The College is responsible for selecting the next Pope whenever the incumbent dies or decides to resign.

Rules for Players
For more player involvement, each player will be able to decide the vote of his or her respective Cardinals. If you do not sign off in the section below before the next turn after the Papal death it will be assumed that you are not interested in voting and your votes will go to Callum. NPC votes also go to Callum.

Since the reform of Leo X in his 1506 Bull Ecclesiam Cardinalibus, in order to be elected Pope, only a simple majority must be obtained. As there are fifteen Cardinals, there must be a vote of eight in order to become Pope. You are allowed to vote for yourself, but it is discouraged.

Current College
The current College is composed of fifteen Cardinals. Unless otherwise stated, Cardinals are appointed on the Feast of the Assumption: August 15.

Papal Conclave, 1404-1405
This College was composed of fifteen Cardinals, down from sixteen in the last Papal Conclave in 1389. Strikeouts represent Cardinals who died in the process of selection.

Please cast your votes for a particular candidate below. Because no one was voted in as Pope this turn, the vote will go into next turn. Maroni is eliminated, leaving only Migliorati, Maramaldo, and Mendoza to contest the papacy. Vote below. With nine votes, Maramaldo becomes Pope, taking the name '''Innocent VII. '''
 * Lope de Mendoza votes for himself. ~Edge because Mp is a bum
 * Pietro II di Candia nominates his close friend, Francesco Carbone Tomacelli, for the esteemed position of the Pope. ~Rex
 * Ludovico Fieschi votes for Francesco Carbone Tomacelli. ~Oct
 * Balint Alsani votes for Cristoforo Maroni ~Lieu
 * Thomas Pupio votes on his Castillian friend,  Lope de Mendoza. ~Nic
 * All of Naples's cardinals (Maramaldo, Tomacelli, Sommariva, Brancaccio, Minutolo, and Migliorati) vote for Naples's eldest clergyman in the College of Cardinals, Landolfo Maramaldo. ~Pyra
 * The other four cardinals vote for Cosimo Gentile Migliorati. -MP
 * Ludovico Fieschi votes for Landolfo Maramaldo~ Oct
 * All remaining Neapolitan cardinals continue to vote for Landolfo Maramaldo ~Pyra
 * Pupio votes on Lope de Mendoza. ~Nic
 * Mendoza votes for himsel again. ~Edge
 * Pietro II di Candia casts his vote for Landolfo Maramaldo. -Rex
 * Balint Alsani votes for Angelo Acciaioli ~Lieu
 * Angelo Acciaioli (just realized I control Florence, and ergo Acciaioli) votes for Landolfo Maramaldo. ~Rex
 * He was a cardinal from Florence before you conquered his home city, he won't vote on your behalf. -MP
 * Florence votes for Angelo Acciaioli while the other two vote for Maramaldo.

Papal Conclave, 1415-1417
Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo votes for Ludovico Fieschi. -Rex

Dživo Sorkočević votes for Lope de Mendoza -Sky

Angelo d'Accostella votes for Knut Bosson

Ludovico Fieschi and Peilo di Marini vote for Fieschi. ~Oct

Pupio votes on his dope niqqa Lope for Pope. ~Nic

Knut Bosson votes for himself. ~AM

Christian Ahlefedt votes for Knut Bosson -Belial

'''Everyone else votes for Accostella. As a result, the vote is now limited down to Accostella, Bosson, and Fieschi.'''

Ludovico Fieschi and Peilo di Marini vote for Fieschi. ~Oct

Both de Luna and Munoz vote for Fieschi. ~Tim

Christian Ahlefedt votes for Knute Basson- Belial

Angelo d'Accostella votes for himself ~Cal

Pupio somewhat disappointed Lope is not elected, votes for Accostella

Dživo Sorkočević votes for d'Accoestella ~Sky

Knut Bosson votes for himself ~AM

'''Everyone else votes for Accostella, except for Teramo who votes for Fieschi. As a result, the vote is now limited down to Accostella and Fieschi. '''

Both de Luna and Munoz vote for Fieschi. ~Tim

Christian Ahlefedt votes for Accostella ~Belial

Thomas Pupio votes for Accostella ~Nic

Angelo d'Accostella votes for himself ~Cal

Dživo Sorkočević votes for d'Accostella ~Skah

Knut Bosson votes for d'Accostella ~AM Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo votes once more for Ludovico Fieschi. -Rex

'''Everyone else votes for Accostella, except for Genoa's cardinals because Oct is lazy. As a result, Accostella is elected Pope by a vote of ten. He takes the name Callixtus III. '''

Papal Conclave, 1448-1451
OOC NOTE: Lope de Mendoza would've died in 1445, so probably isn't visiting us at this Papal Conclave.

Ferdinando Sporeto nominates his friend, Giovanni Corelli.

Plessis votes on his Castillian friend Cortez.

Fransistos votes for Cortez of Castile. ~Tim

Dživo voted for Cortez ~Skyboi

John Kristatos and Joseph Angelos of Greece vote for John Novelli of the Papal States. -NathanialPrice

The three cardinals from the Papal States and the Hospitaller cardinal all vote for Cortez. ~Cal

Giovanni Corelli votes for John Novelli. Ferdinando Sporeto also changes his vote to Novelli. -Rex

'''Everyone else votes for Cortez (because they've had a chance to vote). Cortez of Castile becomes the new Pope and takes the name Callixtus IV. '''

Papal Conclave 1477-1478
NOTE: Information in parentheses is an impediment to being elected to the papacy (ie they are a layman or are not of the Latin Rite). All cardinals, regardless of such impediments, can still vote.

Votes:

Cardinal Carlos Fransistos nominates Fernando Perez for the Papacy.

Cardinal John Kristatos nominates Maxim Konstantinov for the Papacy.

Cardinal Joseph Angelo supports the nomination of Maxim Konstantinov for the Papacy.


 * As the Note above says, being of a non-Latin rite is an impediment to being elected. Feel free to cast a vote for any of the Cardinals without information in brackets. ~Cal

Cardinal Antonio Ortolano nominates Giovanni Neovano for the Papacy.

'''Cardinals Novelli, de Foreno, and Neoveno cast their votes for Perez. '''

Rotherham votes for Perez

Cardinal Emmerich von Berg casts his vote for Perez.

Cardinal Gunther von Rantzau casts his vote for Perez

Cardinal Pedro Manrique supports his colleague and fellow Castilian Perez in his run for the Papacy.

Cardinal Fernando Perez nominates his Aragonese colleague Carlos Fransistos.

Cardinal Andrew Polemnos and Grandmaster Pierre d'Aubusson (Lay) vote for Fernando Perez.

As Perez has gained the majority required (10 votes) I think Perez would now be the presumptive Pope-elect. ~Tim

Yup, I agree:

'Habemus papam''! Fernando Perez of Castile succeeds his countryman to the Throne of St Peter and takes the name Leo X.'''

Papal Conclave 1520
'''Cardinals from NPCs will be controlled by mod random determination. Also, please remember that although you are voting now, the actual election is taking place in 1520. So do not write about the election in your turns until 1520.'''

'''Hold up, just realised. Don't the rules above give me the NPC votes? ~Cal'''


 * Sorry Cal, you're right. -scraw

A surprise at the College of Cardinals! Cardinal Orsini tries to convince his fellow Cardinals that the men of the non-Latin rite should also be eligible for the papacy. He seeks the support of the Cardinals from the Bulgarian, Northern, and Greek Rites. -scraw

Papal States: The two States Cardinals are willing to accept the idea, but point out that as the Patriarch of the West and the bishop of a Latin-Rite diocese, the Papacy is a Latin-Rite position, meaning that were a non-Latin to be raised to the Holy See, he would have to be proficient in the Latin-Rite rubrics. They both vote for Rotherham.

I think the Hospitallar is an NPC.

The Knights Hospitaller: Cardinal Andrew Polemos rejects the notion of Cardinal Orsini and instead votes for Markus Fugger. It is suspected that he may have been bribed. -S

Markus Fugger votes for Rotherham.

Rhoderich de la Mark votes for Rotherham.

All Iberian Cardinals place their votes for their English colleague Rotherham.

Thomas Rotherham is honoured by people supporting him. He agrees that the Pope and Catholic church is a Latin rite and so it would be insensible for someone of the non- Latin rite to be nominated. He nominates Andrew Polemos

John Kristatos, Joseph Angeolos, and Maxim Konstantov (also reigning as Ecumenical Patriarch currently) All vote for Cardinal Konstantov (this is 2 votes only is it not? not sure about the rules on self voting).

'''Callum just a note, yes i am voting eastern rite again, but there is a specific purpose and its not something that can be negated, this is a clear disunity in parts of the church. -Feud'''


 * Np dude, I'm going to have an Ecumenical Council to sort this stuff out. ~Cal

Antonio Ortolano votes Rotherham. ~Cal

Orsini votes Konstantinov to prove his point. ~Cal

Habemus Papam

'''After an unusually heavily contested Conclave, the Englishman Rotherham is elected Pope in 1520 by the closest of margins, coming to the throne of St Peter in a time of clear disunity and distrust throughout the Church. '''

Papal Conclave 1545-6
'''Remember that although you are voting now, the election does not take place in-game until 1545, so do not mention it in-turn until then. '''

Additionally, since the reforms of the Council of Cologne, any Cardinal can be elected Pope (although electing the layman de Villiers would be unusual since he would have to be ordained a priest, then a bishop, then made pope; and electing Fugger would be unwise since he's about a million years old)

Votes: 

England: Gerald Lumley and Robert Bradford votes for XX Patriarch of the Northern Rite in an attempt to quell the rising differences between the Latin and northern rites combined with also supporting allies in Brandenburg.

Augsburg: Fugger votes for himself.

Papal States: Pampani, Peroni, and Bortolucci vote for da Cunha of Lisbon.

Prussia: Himmler von Steuin and Franz von Werden vote for von Stein.

Portugal:  João Martins votes for Antonio da Cunha, who voted for himself.

Iberia: Diego de Orbe of Toledo votes for Cunha

Andreas Boonen: Andeas Boonen votes for von Stein.

Cologne: Archbishop-Patriarch Aldrich von Munster votes for von Stein.

Poland (Catholic Council): Archbishop Stanislaw Cardinal Strzelecki votes for von Stein in the hope of getting Imperial aid for the Catholics in Poland.

Hospitaller New Rhodes: Votes for von Stein in the interests of strengthening Church unity

Habemus papam!

'''Himler von Stein is elected the first non-Latin Pope, and takes the name Gregory XII, after Gregory V, the only other German pope in history. '''

Papal Conclave 1579-1580
Remember, although you are voting now the election does not start in-game until 1579. Also, given the long reign of the Northern-Rite Gregory XII, electing a Latin-Rite Pope would be beneficial to keep the Latins happy.

Paul Jeresy and Gerald Percy vote for Guglielmo Roncali.

Francois Villette votes for Guglielmo Roncali.

Karl Voermaan and Georges Mercurian vote for Gunther Brewer.

Michał Czacki and Gerald Percy votes for Samuel Toth 
 * I don't know who this guy is or why he thinks he can control both Catholic League Poland and an English cardinal (who has already voted...) ~Cal

'''Vittorio Mastroianni and Guglielmo Roncali vote for Roncali. '''

'''Lieberman,and Bauerhof all vote for Brewer to assume papacy. '''

Toth and Brewer vote for Roncali

Czacki and de Bourgerac vote for Roncalli ~Cal

HABEMUS PAPAM: Having received more than the required eight votes, Roncalli is elected Pope, and takes the name Innocent VIII

Papal Conclave 1622-
Before the vote begins, the Papal electors, both connected to the conservative Angelicum faction, extol the virtues of Archbishop Baldrich of Cologne, the "Hammer of the Heretics", known for his orthodoxy, but also for his good relations with the Northern Rite.

Papal States: Froncalli, Einaudi, and Carnallo all vote for Baldrich of Cologne.

Cologne: Archbishop Baldrich of Cologne is honoured with the votes of the Papal electors, and in turn votes for himself. He would be more than willing to extend his strict approach to discipline and heresy, along with his peaceful approach to the Northern Rite (characteristic of Kolsch Archbishops since the Council of Cologne), to the Papacy.

Burgundy: Archbishop Maximien Laval, and Bishop Karl Voermaan vote for Baldrich of Cologne.

Cardinals
Below is the section where you may propose Cardinals to fill in seats left vacant by a Cardinal's death. Please try to restrain your proposal to one Cardinal per nation, unless you'd like the risk of the College being filled by an entire nation of Cardinals, which is no fun anyway.


 * Mario Moltisanti, Archbishop of Milan
 * Baldrich von Hochstaden, Archbishop-Patriarch of Cologne
 * Jean Cenaux, Archbishop of Bourdeaux