Papal conclave, 1623

The papal conclave of 1623 was the papal conclave of Cardinals called on the death of pope Gregory XV. It lasted eighteen days from 19 July 1623 to 6 August 1623 and chose Maffeo Barberini, who took office as pope Urban VIII.
== History ==
The College of Cardinals was then made up of 66 members, of whom all but 12 cardinals were in Rome at the time the conclave was called, so the conclave had 54 participants, chosen by the following popes:
* pope Gregory XV: 9 cardinals
* pope Paul V: 32 cardinals
* pope Clement VIII: 8 cardinals
* pope Gregory XIV: 2 cardinals
* pope Sixtus V: 2 cardinals
* pope Gregory XIII: 1 cardinal
The conclave divided up into four factions:
*The elderly, who had risen to cardinal even before the accession of pope Paul V
*The prince-cardinals from the Farnese and d'Este families, as well as the cardinal of Savoy
*The 22 to 25 Borghesiani, created by the Borghese pope Paul V
*The Ludovisiani, the cardinal-nephews of Gregory XV and their supporters, led by Ludovico Ludovisi, initially including only 15 cardinals but later rising to 20.
== Participants ==
* Cardinal Dean: Antonio Maria Sauli
* Sub-dean: Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte
* Maffeo Barberini
* Giovanni Battista Deti
* Francesco Sforza di Santa Fiora
* Ottavio Bandini
* Federico Borromeo
* Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto
* Bonifacio Bevilacqua
* Alessandro d'Éste
* Domenico Ginnasi
* Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo
* Giovanni Doria
* Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia
* Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese
* Giovanni Garzia Millini
* Marcello Lante della Rovere
* Maurizio di Savoia
* Fabrizio Veralli
* Giovanni Battista Leni
* Luigi Capponi
* Dezio Carafa
* Domenico Rivarola
* Pietro Paolo Crescenzi
* Giacomo Serra
* Agostino Galamini
* Gaspar Borgia
* Felice Centini
* Roberto Ubaldini
* Tiberio Muti
* Gabriel Trejo Paniagua
* Carlo de Medici
* Giulio Savelli
* Melchior Klesl
* Pietro Campora
* Matteo Prioli
* Scepino Cobelluzz
* Francesco Cennini de´Salamandri
* Guido Bentivoglio
* Pietro Valier
* Eitel Friedrich von Zollern
* Giulio Roma
* Cesare Gherardi
* Desiderio Scaglia
* Stefano Pignatelli
* Ludovico Ludovisi
* Antonio Caetani
* Francesco Sacrati
* Francesco Boncompagni
* Ippolito Aldobrandini
* Lucio Sanseverino
* Marco Antonio Gozzadini
* Cosmo de Torres
* Ottavio Rodolfi
== Absent cardinals ==
* Franz Xaver von Dietrichstein
* Francois de Sourdis d´Escobleau
* Antonio Zapata y Cisneros
* François de la Rochefoucald
* Baltasar de Moscoso y Sandoval
* Alessandro Orsini
* Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas
* Ferdinand of Austria
* Louis de Nogaret d´Epernon de la Valette
* Agostino Spinola
* Armand-Jean du Plessis de Richelieu
* Alfonso de la Cueva
== Sources ==
* vaticanhistory.de: Urban VIII.
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