page_title: Vicedomino de Vicedominis
section_title: Myths
hierarchical_section_title: Vicedomino de Vicedominis / Myths
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Resti attuali tomba Card. Vicedomini
context_page_description: Vicedomino de Vicedominis was an Italian cardinal.
context_section_description: Vicedomino is wrongly said to have become dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals in July 1275.
  According to the later accounts, attested for the first time in the 17th century, in the papal election held after the death of Pope Adrian V he was elected to the Papacy on 5 September 1276 and took the name Gregory XI, but having died the following day early in the morning, his election was not recorded as he was never proclaimed. His death was noted in his home town of Piacenza, in the Necrology of the Cathedral, and on the correct day, 6 September, but it records him only as a cardinal, and makes no mention of his Papacy. This story is rejected by many modern historians, who point out that it is unsupported by any contemporary source, and unsupportable by the chronology of the Conclave of August–September 1276. It is also said that he became a member of the Third Order of S. Francis (Franciscan Tertiary), after he was already a Cardinal, and when he was suffering from a disease and in danger of death. But, if that is true, that he was in danger of death, it would seem to militate against the notion that the Cardinals chose Cardinal Vicedomino as pope on 5 September 1276.
  The remains of his tomb, reconstructed several times, are in the church of San Francesco at Viterbo.
caption: Tomb of Vicedomino in Viterbo
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