[1] Clement did not feel obligated to appoint a German cardinal because the Holy Roman Emperor had requested his assistance in Hungary.

[2] Within days of his death Clement IX had created seven additional cardinals, which brought the number of potential electors to its maximum of seventy.

[4] He intervened in the War of Devolution and helped negotiate a peace, which increased the likelihood that Spain and France would both aid Crete.

[2] Christina, Queen of Sweden, who had abdicated the Swedish throne and moved to Rome before converting to the Catholic Church, served as the secular supporter of the group, and became particularly close to Decio Azzolino.

He announced on 10 February that Louis XIV had vetoed Chigi's candidate for the papacy, Scipione Pannocchieschi d’Elci.

[10] In late April all the factions except the Flying Squadron had disappeared, and the cardinals had agreed to elect Emilio Altieri.

At the afternoon scrutiny, he received twenty-one votes, and was shortly acclaimed pope by an additional thirty-five cardinals.

[11] Altieri was old and was in poor health, and resisted his own election to the point where he had to be dragged out of his room by two cardinals in order to be acclaimed.