1287–1288 Papal Election
elected Nicholas IV4 April 1287 – 22 February 1288 · Conclave law and the Great Schism · Corte Savella, Aventine Hill
The 1287–88 papal election (April 4 – February 22) was the deadliest papal election in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, with six (or five) of the sixteen (or fifteen) cardinal electors perishing during the deliberations.
Elected pope
Nicholas IV
Girolamo Masci
Succeeded
Honorius IV
Duration
11 months
Cardinal electors
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pre-conclave election
Key officials
| Dean | Bentivenga dei Bentivenghi |
Ballot-by-ballot tallies are destroyed by design — the paper is burned in the stove whose smoke announces the result — so this entry records what the Church documents: the dates, the electors, the number of ballots where known, and the man who walked out onto the balcony.