(1) 1. CONTI, O.S.B.Cas., Bernardo Maria (1664-1730)
Birth. February 29, 1664, Rome. His family gave the Church Popes, Innocent III, Gregory IX and Alexander IV. Brother Pope Innocent XIII. Grand-nephew of Cardinal Carlo Conti (1604). Nephew of Cardinal Giannicolò Conti (1664). Other cardinals of the family were Giovanni dei conti di Segni (1200); Ottaviano dei conti di Segni (1205); Lucido Conti (1411) (pseudocardinal); Giovanni Conti (1480); and Francesco Conti (1517).
Education. Entered the Order of Saint Benedict Cassinese, monastery of S. Paolo fuori le mura, Rome, 1680. (No further educational information found).
Priesthood. Ordained, December 21, 1689. Abbot of the monastery of S. Maria di Gangi, Sicily. Abbot of the monastery of S. Maria di Farfa, Rome. Visitor of the Benedictine provinces of Rome, Etruria, and Naples.
Episcopate. Elected bishop of Terracina, December 1, 1710. Consecrated (no information found). Assistant at the Pontifical Throne, January 1, 1711. Resigned government of the see for health reasons, June 3, 1720.
Cardinalate. Created cardinal priest in the consistory of June 16, 1721; received the red hat and the title of S. Bernardo alle Terme, July 16, 1721. Grand penitentiary, August 3, 1721 until his death. Participated in the conclave of 1724. Abbot commendatario of S. Maria de Mentorella from 1724. Entered the conclave of 1730; died during its celebration.
Death. April 23, 1730, Rome; had an apoplexy in the conclave at 1 p.m. and died, after placida agonia, on that same day at 5:30 p.m., having received the extreme unction. Exposed in the church of S. Maria in Via, Rome, where the funeral took place without the participation of the cardinals who were in conclave. Transferred to Tivoli and buried in the church of the Madonna della Mentorella, in the jurispatronato of the House of Conti, according to his will.
Link. His engraving by Johannes Christoph Kolb.
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