Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri

Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri (21 November 1566 – 2 October 1645) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.

Biography Cennini de' Salamandri was born 21 November 1566 in Sarteano into a noble family of Marquises of Castiglioncello del Trinoro. He received a Doctorate utroque iure and was ordained a priest in 1591 at age 24.

He was named the parish priest of Sarteano, and Archpriest and Vicar-General of the Diocese of Chiusi before going to Rome to work as a legal advocate. In 1612, he was elected the Bishop of Amelia and became a Signatory of the Apostolic Penitentiary and served as Governor of Rome for eight years. On 21 October 1612, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Garzia Mellini, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati, with Alessandro Ludovisi, Archbishop of Bologna, and Lorenzo Landi, Bishop of Fossombrone, serving as co-consecrators. and Vice-Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals later in 1644.

The following year, 1645, he was appointed Cardinal-Priest of Porto e Santa Rufina but he died on 2 October, only six months later. He was buried at the foot of the tomb of Pope Pius V in the Cappella Paolina.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Mario Sassi, Archbishop of Rossano (1612); Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno, Titular Archbishop of Patrae and Apostolic Nuncio to Flanders (1614); and Domenico Bonzi, Titular Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia and Coadjutor Bishop of Béziers (1616).