{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal}} {{one source|date=February 2017}} thumb|right|200px|Astorgio Agnensi '''Astorgio Agnensi''' (1391–1451) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal, multiple papal governor and multiple Curiate official.
== Biography == Astorgio Agnensi was born in Naples in 1391.<ref name="bare_url">{{cite web|author-link=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=AGNESI, Astorgio (1391-1451)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1448-ii.htm#Agnesi |work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |publisher=Florida International University|oclc=53276621}}</ref> He was elected Bishop of Mileto on 18 September 1411.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was transferred to the see of Ravello on 15 February 1413; to the see of Melfi on 25 January 1418; and then to the see of Ancona on 6 March 1419.<ref name="bare_url" /> On 22 August 1422 he was transferred to the see of Ascoli Piceno but refused; then, on 19 October that year, the see of Umana was united with that of Ancona.<ref name="bare_url" /><ref name="Treccani">{{cite book |title=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: Vol 1 |date=1960 |publisher=Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana/Treccani |location=Rome |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/astorgio-agnesi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |access-date=17 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617121035/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/astorgio-agnesi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |archive-date=17 June 2020 |language=Italian}}</ref>
Agnensi then moved to Rome, becoming apostolic treasurer.<ref name="bare_url" /> From August 1426 to April 1427, he was the papal governor of the Duchy of Spoleto and the March of Ancona.<ref name="bare_url" /> He and Barthélémy Texier, Master of the Order of Preachers, were sent to the see of Iesi to deal with the heretics of the ''Fraticelli''. <ref name="bare_url" /> On 8 February 1436 he was promoted to the see of Benevento; he occupied this position until his death.<ref name="bare_url" />
On 26 March 1442 Pope Eugene IV named him his vicar ''in spiritualibus'' and governor of Rome, a post he held until 1447.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was also the apostolic administrator of the see of Canne from 16 June 1445 until 25 May 1449.<ref name="bare_url" /> In September 1447, he became papal governor of Bologna.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church during the papacy of Eugene IV.<ref name="bare_url" /> Pope Nicholas V made him a cardinal in the consistory of 20 December 1448.<ref name="bare_url" /> He received the titular church of Sant'Eusebio on 3 January 1449, and the red hat on 6 January 1449.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 27 October 1449 until 1450.<ref name="bare_url" />
He died in Rome on 10 October 1451.<ref name="bare_url" /> He is buried in the cloister of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.<ref name="bare_url" />
== References == <references/>
==External links== * Lorenzo Cardella, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBl6a8BtLsoC&pg=PA109 ''Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa''], Roma 1793, vol. III, pp. 109–110 * {{cite book|last=Forcelli|first=Vincenzo|title=Le inscrizioni delle chiese di Roma - Volume I |url=https://archive.org/stream/gri_33125008095479#page/n423/mode/2up|year= 1869|location=Roma|page=417, no 1517|language=it}}
{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | before=Domenico Capranica| title=Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals|years=1449–1450| after=Isidore of Kiev}} {{s-end}}
{{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Italy}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Agnensi, Astorgio}} Category:1391 births Category:1451 deaths Category:15th-century Italian cardinals Category:15th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Kingdom of Naples