Nicholas, Cardinal of Tusculum

Also known as: Nicholas / Nicholas the cardinall of Tusculane · Family: Church · Role: papal legate · First appears: King John 21

Life events

• c. 1213 · Nicholas, Cardinal of Tusculum, deposed William from the abbacy of Westminster for alleged misconduct.(King John 21 · 📍 Westminster)
  • With: William, Abbot of Westminster
  • “This legat at his comming to Westminster, deposed the abbat of that place, named William from his roome, for that he was accused both of wasting the reuenues of the house, and also of notable incontinencie.”
• c. 1213 · Nicholas, Cardinal of Tusculum, absolved Oxford's burgesses and imposed public penitential processions.(King John 21 · 📍 Oxford)
  • “To be short, they were absolued and penance inioined them, that they should strip them out of their apparell at euerie church in the towne, and going barefooted with scourges in their hands, they should require the benefit of absolution of euerie parish préest within their towne, saieng the psalme of Miserere.”
• c. 1213 · King John restored most remaining goods and half of consumed goods seized during his conflict with the pope.(King John 21)
  • With: King John
  • “yet he caused king John to restore the most part of all those goods that remained vnspent, and also the value of halfe of those that were consumed and made awaie, vnto those persons as well spirituall as temporall, from whom they had béene taken in time of the discord betwixt him and the pope.”
• c. 1213 · King John delivered the charter submitting England and Ireland to papal authority.(King John 21)
  • With: King John
  • “the cardinall leaned so to the kings side (hauing receiued of him to the popes vse the charter of subiection of the realmes of England and Ireland, now bulled with gold, where at the first it was deliuered to Pandulph sealed onelie with wax.)”
• 1214 · The interdiction was removed and England was solemnly released from it.(King John 22 · 📍 S. Paule at London)
  • With: King John Pope Innocent III
  • “so that after the assurance so taken for paiment of the od 13 thousand marks behind, residue of the 40 thousand marks, the interdiction was taken vtterlie awaie, and the land solemnelie released by the legat, sitting within the cathedrall church of S. Paule at London, vpon the 29 of June, in the yeare 1214”

King John 21

• enemies with William, Abbot of Westminster “This legat at his comming to Westminster, deposed the abbat of that place, named William from his roome, for that he was accused both of wasting the reuenues of the house, and also of notable incontinencie.”
• with King John (Nicholas came as the pope's legate to negotiate with King John.) “The same time, to wit, about the feast of saint Michaell, came Nicholas the cardinall of Tusculane into England, sent from the pope, to take awaie the interdiction, if the king would stand to that agréement which he had made and promised by his oth to performe. King John receiued this cardinall in most honorable wise, and gladlie heard him in all things that he had to saie.”
• with William, Abbot of Westminster (Nicholas deposed William from the abbacy.) “This legat at his comming to Westminster, deposed the abbat of that place, named William from his roome, for that he was accused both of wasting the reuenues of the house, and also of notable incontinencie.”

King John 22

• with Pope Innocent III (Nicholas was the pope's legate.) “Ye haue heard before how pope Innocent (or rather Nocent, who was the root of much mischiefe and trouble, which qualities are nothing consonant to his name) according to that king John had required of him by solemne messengers, directed his bulles vnto his legat Nicholas”
• rivals with Geoffrey Plantagenet, Archbishop of York “There was some grudge betwixt the legat and the archbishop, for that where the pope had written to the legat, how he should (according to the order of the ancient canons of the church) place in euerie bishops sée and abbeie (that was void) méet and able persons to rule and guide the same, the legat presuming on that authoritie granted him by the pope, without the aduise of the archbishop or other bishops, tooke onelie with him certeine of the kings chapleins, and comming with them to such churches as were vacant, ordeined in them such persons as were nothing méet to take such charge vpon them”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.