Pope Paul III (r. 1534–1549) created 71 cardinals in twelve consistories.
18 December 1534
Alessandro Farnese, iuniore Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora
21 May 1535
Nikolaus von Schönberg Girolamo Ghinucci Giacomo Simoneta John Fisher Jean du Bellay Gasparo Contarini Marino Caracciolo
Desiderius Erasmus was offered a cardinal's hat, but he declined.
22 December 1536
Gian Pietro Carafa Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte Ennio Filonardi Jacopo Sadoleto Cristoforo Giacobazzi Charles de Hémard de Denonville Rodolfo Pio da Carpi Reginald Pole Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós Girolamo Aleandro (created in pectore) Niccolò Caetani
18 October 1538
Pedro Sarmiento
20 December 1538
Juan Álvarez de Toledo Pedro Fernández Manrique Robert de Lénoncourt David Beaton Ippolito II d'Este Pietro Bembo
19 December 1539
Federigo Fregoso Pierre de La Baume Antoine Sanguin Uberto Gambara Pierpaolo Parisio Marcello Cervini Bartolomeo Guidiccioni Ascanio Parisani Dionisio Laurerio Enrique de Borja y Aragón Giacomo Savelli Miguel da Silva
2 June 1542
Giovanni Morone Marcello Crescenzi Giovanni Vincenzo Acquaviva d'Aragona Pomponio Cecci Roberto Pucci Tommaso Badia Giovanni Andrea Cortese Cristoforo Madruzzo
19 December 1544
Gaspar de Ávalos de la Cueva Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo Georges d'Armagnac Jacques d'Annebaut Otto Truchsess von Waldburg Andrea Cornaro Francesco Sfondrati Federico Cesi Durante Duranti Niccolò Ardinghelli Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro Tiberio Crispo
16 December 1545
Pedro Pacheco de Villena Georges II d'Amboise Henrique de Portugal Ranuccio Farnese
27 July 1547 Charles de Guise Giulio della Rovere
9 January 1548
Charles de Bourbon-Vendôme
8 April 1549
Girolamo Verallo Giovanni Angelo de' Medici Filiberto Ferrero Bernardino Maffei
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