Giulio Cesare Sacchetti
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Giulio Cesare Sacchetti was an Italian Catholic cardinal and was twice included in the French Court's list of acceptable candidates for the Papacy, in 1644 and 1655.
Cardinal Giulio Cesare Sacchetti, Pietro da Cortona, 1626
Jus exclusivae
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Jus exclusivae was the right claimed by several Catholic monarchs of Europe to veto a candidate for the papacy. Although never formally recognized by the Catholic Church, the monarchs of France, Spain
Giulio Cesare Sacchetti
…To this end they devised a rhyming ditty expressing: 'Don't make Sacchetti pope or Rome will fall to pieces'. Spain, fearing he would be pro-French, vetoed his nomination via its representative Cardinal Gil de Albornoz. The conclave instead elected Giovanni Battista Pamphili, who took the papal throne as…
Franz Joseph I of Austria was the last monarch to attempt to exercise the jus exclusivae.