Jean de Carvajal
See also: Carvajal
Jean de Carvajal (born in 1399 with Truxillo, Estrémadure - died the December 6th 1469 with Rome, Italy), was a Spanish cardinal of the 15th century, which was successively listener of the rote, one of the three courts of the Roman Catholic church, then governor of Rome.
Biography
August 1st Jean de Carvajal was in charge of several missions in Germany. In 1440, it attended the diet convened with Mainz, and spoke there with force and eloquence. In a second voyage, it was accompanied in Germany by Thomas de Sarna ( Tommaso Parentucelli ), which became thereafter, under the name of Nicolas V, Pape of 1447 with 1455.Jean de Carvajal is created cardinal by Eugene IV the December 17th 1446. He fought the Hussite S, and contributed to the profit of a battle delivered by the Christian army to the Turks the July 22nd 1456, under the walls of Belgrade, which saw it overcoming the Othoman sultan Mehmet II. On this subject, Antoine-Henri de Bérault-Bercastel, in its Histoire of the church (1809) evokes the role of Jean de Carvajal in this victory:
- “Three of the same men name, and of quite different state, knowledge Jean de Carvajal, cardinal - Legate, Jean Huniade, general of the king de Hongrie, and Jean de Capistran, religious franciscain, were the instruments which in the hand of God were also useful, each one in its manner, to confuse the Moslem arrogance. Carvajal, skilful legate, prelate of an eminent piety, man of a specific courage to any kind of functions, helped by Capistran, powerful in works and words, gathered an army of approximately forty thousand combatants, but without experiment and fame, drawn with haste from bottom people, without balance, almost without weapons and discipline, such finally that it was important, not to ignore in their victory the work of the Almighty. ”
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