Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona

This article is about the Italian cardinal. For the Aragonese general, see Iñigo I d'Avalos.

Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona, (1535/36–1600), was an Italian Cardinal, from Naples.

He was the son of condottiero Alfonso d'Avalos d´Aquino, (1502–1546) and Maria d'Aragona, from the family of the Dukes of Montalto, Spanish nobility. In 1563, he constructed the Castello d'Avalos on Procida, a small island in the Gulf of Naples.[1][2]

After a period as lay administrator (he was for a while Chancellor of the Kingdom of Naples, he was made bishop of Mileto in 1566, bishop of Sabina in 1586, bishop of Frascati in 1589, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1591.

In Spain, another clergyman member of this family was cardinal Gaspar Dávalos de la Cueva

Notes

  1. ↑ "History of Procida". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "The Stability of Monuments over Coastal Cliffs in the Bay of Napoli" (PDF). UNESCO. p. 6. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
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