Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze
| Styles of Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanzr | |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Ss Cosma and Damiano |
Carlo Vittorio Amedeo Delle Lanze (1712–1784) was an Italian clergyman, a Roman Catholic cardinal.[1][2] In his youth Delle Lanze was supposed to be close to Jansenism, but in his late life he was a supporter of Jesuit and part of the zelanti.
Biography
Born in 1712 son of Carlo Francesco Agostino, conte di Sale e di Vinovo, the illegitimate son of Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy. In his youth he became a soldier and started a military career in the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia, but in 1730 he decided to follow the ecclesiastic career, studying at Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.
Ordained as priest in 1736, he did his pastoral work in Turin as spiritual assistant of young people at university students. In 1743 he was named abbot of San Giusto di Susa, and then of the Lucedio Abbey. In 1747 he was named cardinal and archbishop of Nicosia; two years later he received the commenda of the Abbey of Fruttuaria in northern Piedmont. He presided the marriage between Victor Amadeus III of Savoy and Maria Antonietta of Spain. In 1775 he was named secretary of the Congregation of the Council.
He died in the Abbey of Fruttuaria and was buried there.
Papal elections
As a cardinal Delle Lanze participated in 3 conclaves: 1758, 1769 and 1774. During the conclave of 1774, Delle Lanze was one of the pro-Jesuit cardinals, and in the first ballots he received the highest number of votes on 25 October, but, due to the opposition of the cardinals with strong ties with the European monarchies, he was not elected as pope.