Andrea Negroni


Andrea Negroni was an Italian Cardinal who was CardinalDeacon of the titular Church of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzio from 1765 to 1779.

Negroni was born in Rome, the eldest of the two sons of Count Giovanni Battista Negroni, whose family had originated from Bergamo, and his wife, Ludovisi di San Casiano. Their other child was Stanislaus. Through him, the Negroni family was added to the Roman nobility in 1746. His grandfather, Count Giovanni Francesco Negroni, had been appointed as Governor of the territory of Orvieto, part of the Papal States, in 1673 by the Holy See. The family name is also listed as Nigronus.

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