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Consistory Promotes Several Cardinals and Notables
The papal consistory elevates nobles and clergy including Leo Putier de Gevres, Francisco Mailly, George Spinola, Corneio Bentivori, Thomas Philip de Boffe, Lewis de Moncada, Joseph Pereira de la Cerda, Michael Frederick Van Athan, and John Baptist Salerno. Also noted are deaths: Captain Christopher O Bryan of the Rippon, Count Virteus Christian Guldenlewe, Cardinal Joseph Emanuel de lat Fenille, and mathematician John Flamsteed, with other local obituaries and arrivals in 1720.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Putier de Gevres
Bourges
Francisco Mailly
Rheims
George Spinola
Genoefey
Murcia
Spain
Joseph Pereira de la Cerda
al- Zarvez
Portugal
Michael Frederick van Athan
Pvaccia
Hungary
John Baptist Salerno
Prince
Saxony
Mediterranean
Christopher 0
Bryan
Earl of
Inchequin
Kingdom of Ireland
Copenhagen
Virteus Chriffian Guldenlewe
Chriffian V
Denmark
Rome
Joseph Emanuel de Lat Fenille
Che
John Flamsteed
Royal Observatory
Greenwich Park