The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

Biographical Dictionary
[Antipope] Clement VII (1378-1394)
Consistory of May 30, 1382 (III)
Celebrated in Avignon


(8) 8. CLAUSSE, O.P., Tommaso (?-1390)

Birth. (No date found), Casasco, Piedmont. He is also listed as Tommaso di Casasco. He was called the Piedmontese Cardinal.

Education. Entered the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in Chieri. Magister in theology.

Priesthood. Ordained (no further information found). Provincial of his order in Lombardy. Inquisitor of the faith. Confessor of Duke Amedeo di Savoia (1).

Cardinalate. Created pseudocardinal priest of S. Sabina in the consistory of May 30, 1382. He entered the Avignon curia on November 14, 1383. He authored Sermons and several diverse works.

Death. June 17, 1390, Avignon. Buried (no information found).

Bibliography. Chacón, Alfonso. Vitæ, et res gestæ Pontificvm Romanorum et S. R. E. Cardinalivm ab initio nascentis Ecclesiæ vsque ad Vrbanvm VIII. Pont. Max. 2 volumes. Romae : Typis Vaticanis, 1677, II, col. 678; "Essai de liste générale des cardinaux. VI. Les cardinaux du Grand Schisme (1378-1417)". Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1931. Paris : Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1931, p. 146; Eubel, Conradus and Gulik, Guglielmus van. Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi. Volumen I (1198-1431). Münich : Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, 1913; reprint, Padua : Il Messagero di S. Antonio, 1960, pp. 27 and 46.

(1) Chacón, Vitæ, et res gestæ Pontificvm Romanorum et S. R. E. Cardinalivm, II, 678, says that Felix Contelorius indicates that he was elected archbishop of Naples; this is contradicted by "Essai de liste générale des cardinaux. VI. Les cardinaux du Grand Schisme (1378-1417)". Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1931, p. 146; and Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, I, 27; Daniello Maria Zigarelli, Biografie dei vescovi e arcivescovi della chiesa di Napoli con una descrizione del clero, della cattedrale, della basilica di s. Restituta e della cappella del tesoro di s. Gennaro (Napoli: Tipografico di G. Gioja, 1861), does not mention him at all among the archbishops of that see.

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