Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona | |
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Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina | |
Church | Catholic Church |
In office | 1591–1600 |
Previous post(s) | Bishop of Mileto (1566–73) |
Orders | |
Consecration | 13 October 1566 by Pope Pius V |
Created cardinal | 26 February 1561 by Pope Pius IV |
Rank | Cardinal-Bishop |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1535 |
Died | 20 February 1600 (aged c. 65) Rome, Papal States |
Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona (1535/36–1600) was an Italian Cardinal, from Naples.
He was the son of condottiero Alfonso d'Avalos and Maria d'Aragona, from the family of the Dukes of Montalto , Spanish nobility. In 1563, he constructed the Castello d'Avalos on Procida, a small island in the Gulf of Naples.[1][2]
After a period as lay administrator (he was for a while Chancellor of the Kingdom of Naples, he was made bishop of Mileto in 1566, bishop of Sabina in 1586, bishop of Frascati in 1589, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1591.
In Spain, another clergyman member of this family was cardinal Gaspar Dávalos de la Cueva.