Pietro Tagliavia d'Aragonia [SEP] position held
Pietro Tagliavia d'Aragonia
Pietro Tagliavia d'Aragonia (died 1558) was an Italian a href="Catholic%20Church"Roman
Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Biography.
Pietro Tagliavia d'Aragonia was born in Palermo ca. 1500, the son of Giovanni Vincenzo Tagliavia, count of Castelvecchio and Beatrice d'Aragonia e Cruillas.
Early in his career, he was a cleric in Mazara del Vallo.
On May 28, 1537, he was elected Bishop of Agrigento, receiving the indult to receive episcopal consecration on June 6, 1537. He was promoted to the
- Jerzy Radziwill, bishop of Wilno, Lithuania.
- Simeone Tagliavia d'Aragonia.
- Charles III de Bourbon de Vendôme, coadjutor archbishop of Rouen, France.
- Andrew Báthory, bishop of Ermland, Prussia.
Sources.
- Ludwig von Pastor, "History of the Popes vol. XIX", London 1930
- Giuseppe de Novaes, "Elementi della storia de' sommi pontefici da San Pietro sino al ... Pio Papa VII"; third edition, Volume 8 (Roma 1822) 103–106.