Giambattista Altieri [SEP] place of death
Giambattista Altieri
Giambattista Altieri (20 June 1589 – 26 November 1654) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.
Early life.
Giambattista Altieri was born 20 June 1589 in Rome, the son of Lorenzo Altieri and Victoria Delphini, a Venetian lady. The Altieri family belonged to the ancient Roman nobility and had enjoyed the highest consideration at Rome for several centuries; they had occasionally contracted alliances with the Colonnas and the Orsinis. Altieri was the older brother of Emilio Bonaventura Altieri who was elected to the papal throne as Pope Clement
and Duke of Monterano. Paluzzo, created cardinal, became the pope`s cardinal-nephew, ruling "de facto" the catholic Church as "Cardinal-padrone" (), and making of his family one of the richest of the city.
The Altieri had other Cardinals: Giambattista the elder (1589-1654), brother of Emilio, who prepared the ascent to the papacy of his younger brother, and commissioned the family's palazzo in the rione Pigna, replacing the already existing Altieri houses; Lorenzo (1671