October 1503 papal conclave

Papal conclave
October 1503
Dates and location
October 1503
Apostolic Palace, Papal States
Key officials
DeanGiuliano della Rovere
CamerlengoRaffaele Riario
ProtodeaconGiovanni Colonna
Election
Ballots1
Elected pope
Giuliano della Rovere
Name taken: Julius II
1513 →

The October 1503 papal conclave elected Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere as Pope Julius II to succeed Pope Pius III. The conclave took place during the Italian Wars barely a month after the papal conclave, September 1503, and none of the electors had travelled far enough from Rome to miss the conclave.[1] The number of participating cardinals was thirty-eight, the College of Cardinals having been reduced by the election of Piccolomini as Pius III, who did not elevate cardinals.[1] At a consistory on 11 October Pope Pius had proposed to make Cardinal d'Amboise's nephew a cardinal, as part of his effort to conciliate the French, but the response from the cardinals was not enthusiastic.[2]

  1. ^ a b Baumgartner 2003, p. 89.
  2. ^ Marino Sanuto, I Diarii di Marino Sanuto Volume V (Venezia 1881), pp. 176–177.