(55) 1. FERNÁNDEZ DE CÓRDOBA PORTOCARRERO GUZMÁN Y AGUILAR, Luis Antonio (1696-1771)
Birth. January 22, 1696, Montilla, diocese of Córdoba, Spain. He was count of Teba and marquis of Ardales. Nephew of Cardinal Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio (1669), on his mother's side. He is also listed as Luis Antonio Fernández de Córdoba.
Education. University of Salamanca, Salamanca; University of Alcalá, Alcalá (doctorate in law).
Priesthood. Ordained (no information found). Named canon of the metropolitan cathedral chapter of Toledo by Pope Clement XII in 1721; dean by Pope Innocent XIII, shortly after in 1721. Presented to the cardinalate by King Fernando VI of Spain in spite of his sincere resistance; the king assigned him a pension of 36,000 ducats and nine julios.
Cardinalate. Created cardinal priest in the consistory of December 18, 1754; never received the red hat and the title. With tears in his eyes he begged the king of Spain not to nominate him for the primatial and metropolitan see of Toledo but to appoint a more worthy person.
Episcopate. Elected archbishop of Toledo, August 4, 1755. Consecrated, September 28, 1755, San Jerónimo el Real, Madrid, by Manuel Quintano Bonifaz, titular archbishop of Farsalo, coadministrator of Toledo, inquisitor general of Spain, assisted by Andrés Núñez Monteagudo, titular bishop of Mascula, auxiliary of Toledo, and by Agustín González Pisador, titular bishop of Tricomi, auxiliary of Toledo. Until his enthronement, his vicar general was Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana, future cardinal. Did not participate in the conclave of 1758, which elected Pope Clement XIII. Participated in the conclave of 1769, which elected Pope Clement XIV. (1). Chancellor major of Castilla.
Death. March 26, 1771, Toledo. Buried in the church of the convent of the Capuchin nuns, Toledo, which he had restored (2).
Bibliography. Cardella, Lorenzo. Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa. 9 vols. Rome : Stamperia Pagliarini, 1797, IX, 59; Espada, L. "Fernández de Córdoba, Luis Antonio." Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España. 4 vols and Supplement. Dirigido por Quintín Aldea Vaquero, Tomás Marín Martínez, José Vives Gatell. Madrid : Instituto Enrique Flórez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1972-1975; Suplemento (1987), II, 918; Guitarte Izquierdo, Vidal. Episcopologio Español (1700-1867). Españoles obispos en España, América, Filipinas y otros países. Rome : Instituto Español de Historia Eclesiástica, 1994. (Publicaciones del Instituto Español de Historia Eclesiástica; Subsidia; 29), p. 81; Ritzler, Remigium, and Pirminum Sefrin. Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi. Volumen VI (1730-1799). Patavii : Typis et Sumptibus Domus Editorialis "Il Messaggero di S. Antonio" apud Basilicam S. Antonii, 1968, pp. 17, 25 and 410.
(1) According Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentoris Aevi, VI, 25, he was minime praesente in conclavi.
(2) This is according to Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentoris Aevi, VI, 17; Cardella, Memorie storiche de' cardinali dela Santa Romana Chiesa, IX, 59, says that he was buried in the metropolitan cathedral of Toledo.
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