From Wikipedia:Currently researching in depth regarding the protestant reformation, and I just want to know what crown-cardinals are and how much of an effect would Crown-Cardinals have in the reformation and subsequent counter-reformation.
A crown-cardinal (Italian: cardinale della corona)[1] was a cardinal protector of a Roman Catholic nation, nominated or funded by a Catholic monarch to serve as their representative within the College of Cardinals[2][3] and, on occasion, to exercise the right claimed by some monarchs to veto a candidate for election to the papacy.[4] More generally, the term may refer to any cardinal significant as a secular statesman or elevated at the request of a monarch.
Yea I see that but like is there anything more than just Oh I can veto a papal candidate?From Wikipedia:
@NuragheCurrently researching in depth regarding the protestant reformation, and I just want to know what crown-cardinals are and how much of an effect would Crown-Cardinals have in the reformation and subsequent counter-reformation.
Currently researching in depth regarding the protestant reformation, and I just want to know what crown-cardinals are and how much of an effect would Crown-Cardinals have in the reformation and subsequent counter-reformation.
From Wikipedia:
So its merely a prestige and diplomatic thing got it.unfortunately, as they have already pointed out in this comment, the role assigned to the cardinals of the crown was only two : that of a diplomatic nature, as representative of the kingdom to which he is linked / related, and then there is the one they exercise in the conclave ( among other things it is also one of the few occasions where they actually visit or assiduously frequent the rooms of papal power in Rome ) finally their institution began only in the 14th century, given that the first reference to this figure occurred in 1425, under Martin V, which prohibited his cardinals from binding themselves or putting themselves under the protection of a foreign government, but even if over the following decades this practice was always frowned upon by the pontiffs, it had now become a custom, so much so that Leo X in 1512 he decided that it wasn't worth trying to enforce this ban, otherwise they never really played a key role in the response to the Protestant movement, also because they had no real political power within the papal government, compared to their normal counterparts who resided permanently in Rome and therefore served in positions of prestige in the papal curia and administration
So its merely a prestige and diplomatic thing got it.
I mean Flanders apparently had one so I think it was just a matter of prestige and favourability with the papacy.mainly it was just that, given that they demonstrated the importance of that particular state within European diplomacy, given that only kingdoms could have it, the real objective of the monarchs of Europe was to obtain a curial cardinal rather than a simple cardinal protector, given that the former had more relevant tasks and the possibility of interfacing with the Pope on several occasions