Giambattista Spinola

Giambattista Spinola (20 September 1615 – 4 January 1704) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and an Archbishop of Genoa.

[1][2] Giambattista was born in Madrid, Spain, the fourth of the twelve children of Luca Spinola and Battina Lomellini.

They were immigrants from Genoa in Italy, members of the influential Spinola family of that city, which had long been active in Genoese politics.

[3] Spinola studied law as a young man, receiving the degree of Doctor in utroque iure.

[4] Shortly after his resignation, Spinola was named a Cardinal Priest by Pope Innocent XI, with his titular church that of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome.