Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo

Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo (24 August 1499 – 29 June 1562) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.

Biography

Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo was born in Cuéllar on 24 August 1499, the son of Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque and his wife Francisca de Toledo.

As a young man, before he took Holy Orders, he had an illegitimate son, Bartolomé de la Cueva.

He participated in the papal conclave of 1549-50 that elected Pope Julius III. On 4 December 1551 he opted for the titular church of San Bartolomeo all'Isola. He served as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 12 January 1554 to 7 January 1555. Cardinal de la Cueva participated in both the papal conclave of April 1555 that elected Pope Marcellus II and the papal conclave of May 1555 that elected Pope Paul IV. He opted for the titular church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme on 29 May 1555.

From October 1558 to June 1559, he served as viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples.

He was a participant in the papal conclave of 1559 that elected Pope Pius IV. The new pope appointed him to a commission of cardinals tasked with studying church reform in 1560. On 13 September 1560 he was promoted to the metropolitan see of Manfredonia.

He died in the former Medici palace in Rome on 29 June 1562. He was initially buried in Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore. His remains were later transferred to the family tomb in the monastery of San Francisco in Cuéllar.