The Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals was the treasurer of the College of Cardinals in the Catholic Church. The title is based on an Italian word for chamberlain, a word no longer used in secular contexts. The position existed from at least 1272 until 1997, when it was allowed to lapse.
The Camerlengo administered all property, fees, funds and revenue belonging to the College of Cardinals, celebrated the requiem Mass for a deceased cardinal and was charged with the registry of the Acta Consistoralia.
It is believed that the post was created by Pope Eugene III in 1150, but there is no documentary proof of its existence before the pontificate of Pope Innocent III, or perhaps even before the year 1272.I. S. Robinson (1990), The Papacy 1073–1198. Continuity and Innovation, Cambridge University Press, pp. 41 and 253, says that Cardinal Cencio was Camerlengo of the College during pontificate of Innocent III, but W. Maleczek (1984), Papst und Kardinalskolleg von 1191 bis 1216, Vienna, p. 112, doubts it. The first undisputed occupant of that post was Guillaume de Bray in 1272.
List of Camerlengos of the Sacred College of Cardinals 1198 to 1439 Cencio Savelli (1198–1216) (1217–1271 – no information found) Guillaume de Bray (1272–1282) (1283–1287 no information found) Pietro Peregrosso (1288–1295) Hugh Aycelin (1295–1297) Robert de Pontigny (1298–1305) Jean Lemoine (1305–1310) Etienne de Suissy (1310–1311) Nicolas de Freauville (1312–1313) Berengar Fredol the Younger (1313–1323) Guillaume Teste (1323–1326) Pierre d'Arrabloy (1326–1331) Pedro Gómez de Barroso (1331–1340) Imbert du Puy (1340–1348) Guillaume Court (1348–1361) Hugues Roger (1361–1363) Guillaume Aigrefeuille (seniore) (1363–1369) Guillaume Aigrefeuille (iuniore) (from 1369)
Obedient to Rome Niccolò Caracciolo Moschino (1378–1386) Francesco Renzio (1386–1390) Enrico Minutoli (1390–1412) Obedient to Avignon Guillaume Aigrefeuille (iuniore) (until 1401) Martín de Zalba (1401–1403) Amedeo Saluzzo (1403–1409) Amedeo Saluzzo (1409–1419) Francesco Lando (1419–1427) Antonio Panciera (1428–1431) Lucido Conti (1431–1437) Angelotto Fosco (1437) Domenico Capranica (1438) Prospero Colonna (1439)
1440 to 1499
Guillaume d'Estouteville (1440) Basilios Bessarion (1441) Niccolo d'Acciapaccio (1442) Giovanni Berardi (1443) Albert d'Albret (1444) Pietro Barbo (1445–1446) Juan de Torquemada (1446) Giorgio Fieschi (1447) Domenico Capranica (1448) Astorgo Agnensi (1449) Isidore of Kiev (1450) Latino Orsini (1451) Guillaume d'Estaing (1452) Alain de Coëtivy (1453) Filippo Calandrini (1454–1455) Antonio de la Cerda (1456) Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1457–1458) Giacomo Tebaldi (1458) Juan de Mella (1459) Pietro Barbo (1460) Alessandro Oliva (1461) Niccolò Fortiguerra (1462) Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati (1462) Nicholas of Cusa (1463) Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati (1464) Louis d'Albret (1465) Guillaume d'Estouteville (1465) Berardo Eroli (1466) Basilios Bessarion (1467) Guillaume d'Estouteville (1468) Juan de Carvajal (1469) Latino Orsini (1469–1471) Filippo Calandrini (1471) Rodrigo Borgia (1472) – later Pope Alexander VI Guillaume d'Estouteville (1472–1473) Berardo Eroli (1474) Bartolomeo Roverella (1475) Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati (1476) Oliviero Carafa (1477) Marco Barbo (1478) Giuliano della Rovere (1479) – later Pope Julius II Giovanni Battista Zeno (1480) Stefano Nardini (1481) Ausiàs Despuig (1482) Giovanni Arcimboldi (1483) Giovanni Battista Cibo (1484) Giovanni Michiel (1484–1485) Jorge da Costa (1486) (1487–1491, no information available) Lorenzo Cybo de Mari (1492) Antonio Pallavicini Gentili (1493) (1494, no information available) Giambattista Orsini (1495) (1496–1497, no information available) Bernardino López de Carvajal (1498) Bartolomeo Martini (1499)
1500 to 1600
(1500, no information available) Juan López (1501) (1502, no information available) Francisco de Borja (1503) Juan de Vera (1504) Antonio Trivulzio (1505) Gianstefano Ferrero (1506) (1507–1508, no information available) François Guillaume de Castelnau-Clermont-Lodève (1509) (1510–1511, no information available) Robert Guibé (1512) Leonardo Grosso della Rovere (1512–1513) Robert Guibé (1513) (1514–1515, no information available) Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte (1516) Achille Grassi (1517–1518) Lorenzo Pucci (1518–1519) Giulio de Medici (1519–1520) Francesco de Conti (1520–1521) Giovanni Piccolomini (1521–1523) Giovanni Domenico de Cupis (1523–1524) Andrea della Valle (1524–1526) Scaramuccia Trivulzio (1526–1527) Domenico Giacobazzi (1527–1528) Willem van Enckevoirt (1529) Antonio Sanseverino (1530–1531) Benedetto Accolti (1531) Agostino Spinola (1532–1533) Gianvincenzo Carafa (1533–1534) Andrea Matteo Palmieri (1534–1535) Francisco de Quiñones (1535) Francesco Cornaro (1536–1537) Antonio Pucci (1537–1538) Girolamo Ghinucci (1538–1539) Giacomo Simoneta (1539–1540) Gasparo Contarini (1540–1541) Gianpietro Carafa (1541–1542) Rodolfo Pio da Carpi (1542) Pietro Bembo (1542–1543) Juan Alvares de Toledo (1543–1544) Pierpaolo Parisio (1544–1545) Marcello Cervini (1545) Uberto Gambara (1545–1546) Ascanio Parisani (1546–1547) Bartolomeo Guidiccioni (1547–1548) Miguel da Silva (1548–1549) Giovanni Girolamo Morone (1549–1551) Marcello Crescenzi (1551–1552) Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla (1552–1553) Otto Truchsess von Waldburg (1553–1554) Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo (1554–1555) Federico Cesi (1555–1556) Pedro Pacheco (1556–1558) Giovanni Angelo Medici (1557–1558) Tiberio Crispo (1559–1561) Fulvio Cornea (1561–1562) Giovanni Michele Saraceni (1562–1563) Giovanni Ricci (1563–1564) Giovanni Battista Cicala (1564–1565) Scipione Rebiba (1565–1567) Gianantonio Capizucchi (1567–1568) Giacomo Savelli (1568–1569) Luigi Cornaro (1569–1570) Philibert Babou de la Bourdaisière (1570) Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1570–1571) Stanislaus Hosius (1571–1572) Francisco Pacheco de Toledo (1572–1574) Giovanni Francesco Gambara (1574–1575) Charles Borromeo (1575–1576) Alfonso Gesualdo (1576–1577) Niccolò Caetani (1577–1578) Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona (1578–1579) Marcantonio Colonna (1579–1580) Tolomeo Gallio (1580–1581) Prospero Santacroce (1581–1582) Zaccaria Delfino (1582–1583) Giovanni Francesco Commendone (1583–1584) Gugliemo Sirleto (1584–1585) Michele Bonelli (1585–1587) Ludovico Madruzzo (1587–1588) Nicolas de Pellevé (1588–1589) Giulio Antonio Santori (1589–1590) Girolamo Rusticucci (1590–1593) (1593–1594, no information available) Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta (1595–1596) Agostino Valieri (1596–1597) (1597–1598, no information available) Domenico Pinelli, seniore (1599–1600)
1600 to 1700
(1601–1604, no information available) Gregorio Petrocchini, OESA (1605–1607) Paolo Emilio Sfondrati (1607–1608) Ottavio Paravicini (1608–1609) Ottavio Acquaviva d'Aragona (seniore) (1609–1611) Pietro Aldobrandini (1611–1612) Ottavio Bandini (1612–1613) Bartolomeo Cesi (1613–1614) Francesco Mantica (1614) Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini (1614–1616) Domenico Toschi (1616–1617) Roberto Bellarmino (1617–1618) Domenico Ginnasi (1618–1619) Giovanni Delfino (1619–1620) Giacomo Sannesio (1620–1621) Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese (1621–1623) Maffeo Barberini (1623), (Elected Pope Urban VIII on 6 August 1623) Giovanni Garzia Mellini (1623–1625) Marcello Lante della Rovere (1625–1626) Gianbattista Leni (1626–1627) Gaspar Borja y Velasco (1627–1628) Roberto Ubaldini (1628–1629) Tiberio Muti (1629–1630) Giulio Savelli (1630–1631) Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona (1631–1632) Antonio Marcello Barberini (Antonio the Elder), OFMCap. (1632) Desiderio Scaglia, OP (1632–1633) Agostino Spinola Basadone (1633–1634) Cosimo de Torres (1634–1635) Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo (1635–1636) Antonio Marcello Barberini (Antonio the Elder), OFMCap (1636–1637) Luigi Caetani (1637–1638) Bernardino Spada (1638–1639) Berlinghiero Gessi (1639) Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro (1639–1641) Giulio Cesare Sacchetti (1641–1642) Giandomenico Spinola (1642–1643) Giovanni Battista Pamphili (1643–1644), (Elected Pope Innocent X on 15 September 1644) Gil Carrillo de Albornoz (1644–1646) Ciriaco Rocci (1646–1647) Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta (1647–1648) Ulderico Carpegna (1648–1649) Marco Antonio Franciotti (1649–1650) Marcantonio Bragadin (1650–1651) Pier Donato Cesi (1651–1652) Vincenzo Maculani, OP (1652–1653) Francesco Peretti di Montalto (1653–1654) Carlo Rossetti (1654–1656) Francesco Angelo Rapaccioli (1656–1657) Juan de Lugo y de Quiroga, SJ (1657–1658) Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi (1658–1659) Federico Sforza (1659–1660) Benedetto Odescalchi (1660–1661) Camillo Astalli-Pamphili (1661–1662) Luigi Omodei (1662–1663) Giacomo Corradi (1663–1664) Giberto III Borromeo (1664–1665) Marcello Santacroce (1665–1666) Giambattista Spada (1666–1668) Francesco Albizzi (1668–1669) Ottavio Aquaviva d'Aragona (1669–1671) Carlo Pio di Savoia, iuniore (1671–1672) Carlo Gualterio (1672–1673) Flavio Chigi (1673–1674) Giacomo Franzoni (1674–1675) Pietro Vidoni, seniore (1675–1676) Carlo Carafa della Spina (1676–1678) Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni (1678–1679) Giacomo Filippo Nini (1679–1680) Giacomo Rospigliosi (1680–1681) Gasparo Carpegna (1681–1682) César d'Estrées (1682–1683) Federico Baldeschi Colonna (1683–1684) Francesco Nerli (iuniore) (1684–1685) Girolamo Gastaldi (1685) Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal), CRS (1685–1687) Galeazzo Marescotti (1687–1688) Fabrizio Spada (1688–1689) Philip Thomas Howard of Norfolk, OP (1689–1691) Giambattista Spinola, seniore (1691–1692) Savo Millini (1692–1693) Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria, OFMConv (1693) Pier Matteo Petrucci (1693–1695) Jan Kazimierz Denhoff (1695–1696) Leandro Colloredo, Orat. (1696–1697) Domenico Maria Corsi (1697) 1698–1699 (No name given in Acta Camerari Sacri Collegii S. R. E. Cardinalium) Bandino Panciatici (1699–1700)
1700 to 1801
Giacomo Cantelmo (1700–1702) Toussaint de Forbin-Janson, (1702–1703) Giambattista Rubini (1703–1704) Tommaso Maria Ferrari, OP (1704–1705) Giuseppe Sacripante (1705–1706) Fabrizio Paolucci (1706–1707) Andrea Santacroce (1707–1708) Sperello Sperelli (1708–1709) Giovanni Maria Gabrielli, OCist (1709–1710) Lorenzo Corsini (1710–1711) Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragonia (1711–1712) Filippo Antonio Gualterio (1712–1713) Giandomenico Paracciani (1713–1714) Joseph-Emmanuel de La Trémoille (1714–1715) Carlo Agostino Fabroni (1715–1716) Michelangelo dei Conti (1716–1717) Lodovico Pico della Mirandola (1717–1718) Antonio Felice Zondadari (1718–1719) Pietro Marcellino Corradini (1719–1720) Luigi Priuli (1720) Giovanni Battista Tolomei, SJ (1720–1723) Bernardino Scotti (1723–1724) Nicola Gaetano Spinola (1724–1726) Giorgio Spinola (1726–1727) Cornelio Bentivoglio (1727–1728) Luis Antonio Belluga y Moncada (1728–1729) Michael Friedrich von Althann (1729–1730) Álvaro Cienfuegos Villazón, SJ (1730–1732) Giambattista Altieri, iuniore (1732–1733) Vincenzo Petra (1733–1734) Niccolò Maria Lercari (1734–1735) Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti (1735–1736) Leandro Porzia (1736–1737) Pierluigi Carafa (1737–1738) Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese (1738–1739) Vincenzo Bichi (1739–1741) Giuseppe Firrao (1741–1742) Antonio Saverio Gentili (1742–1743) Giovanni Antonio Guadagni, OCD (1743–1744) Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona (1744–1745) Domenico Riviera (1745–1746) Giovanni Battista Spínola (1746–1747) Raniero D'Elci (1747–1748) Domenico Silvio Passionei (1748–1749) Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (1749–1750) Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero (1750–1751) Camillo Paolucci (1751–1752) Carlo Alberto Guidoboni Cavalchini (1752–1753) Federico Marcello Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (1753–1754) Francesco Landi (1754–1755) Fortunato Tamburini, OSBCas (1755–1756)