Silvestro de' Gigli, of Lucca, was a Late Middle Ages and High Renaissance Bishop of Worcester, the second of four Italian absentees to hold the see before the Reformation.[1]
Silvestro de' Gigli | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Worcester | |
| Appointed | 24 December 1498 |
| Term ended | 16 April 1521 |
| Predecessor | Giovanni de' Gigli |
| Successor | Geronimo De Ghinucci |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | c. 6 April 1499 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 16 April 1521 |
| Denomination | Catholic |
He succeeded his uncle, Giovanni de' Gigli, was nominated on 24 December 1498 and consecrated about 6 April 1499.[2] He was implicated but never charged in the 1514 murder by poison of Cardinal and Archbishop of York Christopher Bainbridge.[3] He died on 16 April 1521.[2] The position was then held by Giulio de' Medici, the Cardinal protector of England.[1]
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- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.