Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona

This article is about the Italian cardinal. For the Aragonese general, see Íñigo Dávalos.

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

His Eminence Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Church	Catholic Church
In office	1591–1600
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Mileto (1566–73)
Orders
Consecration	13 October 1566 by Pope Pius V
Created cardinal	26 February 1561 by Pope Pius IV
Rank	Cardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born	c. 1535 Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Died	20 February 1600 (aged c. 65) Rome, Papal States

He was the son of condottiero Alfonso d'Avalos and Maria d'Aragona, from the family of the Dukes of Montalto [es], 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.

Episcopal succession

Episcopal succession of Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:[3] Francesco Cittadini, Bishop of Castro del Lazio (1569); Girolamo Rustici, Bishop of Tropea (1570); Lelio Zibramonti, Bishop of Alba (1583); Maffeo Venier, Archbishop of Corfù (1583); Scipione Gonzaga, Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem (1585); and the principal co-consecrator of:[3] Francisco Pacheco de Toledo, Bishop of Burgos (1567).