Niccolò Capocci

Niccolò Capocci^[1] (died 1368) was an Italian Cardinal.^[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. He was in Spain as bishop of Urgel, 1348–1351.^{[citation needed]}

He acted as papal legate in France, attempting to broker a peace with the English. In 1356 he was there with Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, just ahead of the battle of Poitiers.^[4] He quarreled with Talleyrand, later that year, and operated independently from Paris.^[5] He was in England in June 1357, back again with Talleyrand.^[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.^[8]