Carlo Emanuele Madruzzo

Carlo Emanuele Madruzzo (5 November 1599 – 15 December 1658) was the prince-bishop of Trento in northern Italy from January 1629 until his death.

[1] Charles-Emmanuel de Madruce was born at the Castle of Issogne into the noble family of the Madruzzo,[2] various members of which were also prince-bishops of Trento.

In 1619 he was called back to Trento,[2] where his uncle, Cardinal Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo, had chosen him as his assistant and successor as prince-bishop.

[3] After obtaining the throne in Trento, he had to face a period of crisis caused by the Thirty Years' War and by the tense relations between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Papacy.

In 1631 he ominously fled the city, which had been struck by plague; Madruzzo attracted further criticism for his relationship with a noblewoman, Claudia Particella.