Rinaldo Orsini (cardinal)

{{Short description|Italian prelate}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Rinaldo Orsini''' (died 6 June 1374) was an Italian prelate during the [[Avignon Papacy]]. Born in the 1290s, he was a nephew of Cardinal [[Napoleone Orsini (cardinal)|Napoleone Orsini]]. He was appointed to succeed his uncle as the [[cardinal deacon]] of [[Sant'Adriano al Foro]] by [[Pope Clement VI]] on 17 December 1350.{{sfn|Pio|2013}} He held nonresident ecclesiastical posts in Italy, Spain, the Low Countries and England, where he was the [[archdeacon of Leicester]] for three months in 1346–1347 and later [[dean of Salisbury]].{{sfn|Pio|2013}}{{sfn|Cocks|1993|p=30}} He died during an epidemic at [[Avignon]].{{sfn|Pio|2013}}

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==Bibliography== {{sfn whitelist|CITEREFPio2013}} *{{cite journal |url=https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf |title=The Archdeacons of Leicester, 1092–1992 |first=Terence |last=Cocks |access-date=24 November 2023 |journal=Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society |pages=27–46 |year=1993 |volume=67 |archive-date=20 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420201902/https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown }} *{{DBI |first=Berardo |last=Pio |title=Orsini, Rinaldo |volume=79 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/rinaldo-orsini_res-b00ef5fe-373d-11e3-97d5-00271042e8d9_(Dizionario-Biografico)/}}

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