Matteo Rosso Orsini (cardinal)

Matteo Rosso Orsini (c. 1230, in Rome – 4 September 1305, in Perugia), was a Roman aristocrat, politician, diplomat, and Roman Catholic Cardinal. He was the nephew of Pope Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini) (1277-1280).[1]

S. Maria in Portico
  1. ^ Demski, Papst Nikolaus III, pp. 1-3. Richard Sternfeld, Der Kardinal Johann Gaetan Orsini (Papst Nikolaus III.) 1244-1277 (Berlin: E. Ebering 1905), p. 2 and n. 6. Robert Brentano, Rome before Avignon pp. 35-39, 100-105, 184-188.