All Vatican elections

1447 Conclave

elected Nicholas V

4–6 March 1447 · The early modern conclaves · Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Papal States

Eugene IV had died on 23 February 1447. The cardinals entered conclave at the time of Vespers (sunset) on 4 March, after waiting the full nine days proscribed by Ubi periculum.

Elected pope

Nicholas V

Tommaso Parentucelli

Succeeded

Duration

3 days

Cardinal electors

locked in under conclave rules

Key officials

DeanGiovanni Berardi
CamerlengoLudovico Trevisan

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.