Cardinalship

His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this difference, that they were finished and he was completed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was in 1961, and Croetine's uncle-my great-uncle-had been appointed to a cardinalship and was then stationed at the Vatican. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)

I excused myself by saying that I had taken a resolution never to accept of the cardinalship by any means which seemed to have relation to the civil wars, to the end that I might convince the Queen that it was the most rigid necessity which had separated me from her service. ❋ Various (N/A)

He wished to arrive at the cardinalship, and to further his views he thought it advisable to ingratiate himself into the favour of Monsieur de Bourgogne. ❋ Various (N/A)

Cambrai might rely upon advancement to a cardinalship, and steps were taken, but without any good result, to bring about that event. ❋ Various (N/A)

Regent, and still looked forward to a cardinalship as the reward of his scheming, his baseness, and his perfidy. ❋ Various (N/A)

At the death of Clement XI., legal proceedings that had been taken to deprive Alberoni of his cardinalship, came to an end. ❋ Various (N/A)

Cardinal to secure the advancement of the Abbe d'Auvergne, that he had already made a daring and fraudulent attempt to procure for him a cardinalship. ❋ Various (N/A)

He was much bewildered when he learnt that, on the 16th of June, 1721, the Pope had elevated to the cardinalship; his brother, who for ten years had been Bishop of ❋ Various (N/A)

Alberoni was the opprobrium of the sacred college; proceedings, as I have said, were in progress to deprive him of his cardinalship. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Gentlemen, I think you will thank me for giving you an associate like M. d'Orleans, to whom I give my nomination to the cardinalship." ❋ Various (N/A)

Italy (which his cardinalship made him regard as a safe asylum against all reverses) the immense treasures he had pillaged and collected in ❋ Various (N/A)

His archbishopric and his nomination to the cardinalship required more discussion. ❋ Various (N/A)

Granvelle -- as he must now be called, for his elevation to the cardinalship will be immediately alluded to -- wrote to assure the King that every pains would be taken to ferret out and execute the individuals complained of. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)