Bartolomeo Ruspoli

Bartolomeo dei Principi Ruspoli (25 October 1697 – 21 May 1741) was an Italian Cardinal.

Titles held

He was the son of Prince Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri and his wife Isabella Cesi dei Duchi di Acquasparta, a maternal niece of Pope Innocent XIII.

He was a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

A Protonotary Apostolic since 1718, he became governor of the 1721 papal conclave that elected Pope Innocent XIII. His diligence in this task was such that the newly elected Pope appointed him his Secretary of the Memorial that same year.

He was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in 1724.

Ordained Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Clement XII on 2 October 1730 (with the title of Santi Cosma e Damiano from 22 November 1730), he became Gran Priore of the Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme in 1731.