Niccolò Capocci

[2] He studied law at the University of Perugia; later, in 1362, he founded there the Collegium Gregorianum (later called the Sapienza vecchia).

[3] He was proposed as bishop of Utrecht in 1341, but the appointment in a situation of conflict lasted only a year.

[citation needed] He acted as papal legate in France, attempting to broker a peace with the English.

[6] By mid-1358 the legates and Pope Innocent VI had despaired of an effective treaty:[7] the complete failure of the longest papal peacemaking mission of the fourteenth century.

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