Carlo Alberto Guidoboni Cavalchini

Carlo Alberto Guidoboni Cavalchini[1] (26 July 1683 – 7 March 1774) was an Italian Cardinal. Considered papabile in the Papal conclave, 1758, he was vetoed by Louis XV of France under the jus exclusivae.

A lawyer by education, he became titular archbishop of Filippi in 1728,[2] and was created Cardinal in 1743. He became bishop of Albano in 1759 and bishop of Ostia in 1763. Dean of the College of Cardinals 1763–74.

  1. ^ Or Guidobono.
  2. ^ Kerber, Peter Björn (2017-05-09). Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Getty Publications. ISBN 978-1-60606-525-9.