Editing Pope Eugene IV (section)

==Early life==
Condulmer was born in [[Republic of Venice|Venice]] to [[Condulmer family|a rich merchant family]]. His father was Angelo Condulmer, who founded the Ospizio di Sant'Agnesina for orphaned girls in 1383<ref>Patricia Fortini Brown (2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=z74tNrZgebQC&pg=PA209 ''Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family,''] (New Haven CT: Yale University Press 2004), p. 209.</ref> and his mother was Bariola [[Correr]]. He had a sister, [[:it:Polissena Condulmer|Polissena]], mother of the future [[Pope Paul II]]. Gabriel is said to have received his earliest education under the supervision of his maternal uncle, [[Pope Gregory XII|Angelo Correr]], Bishop of Castello (1380–1390).<ref>Ferdinand Ughelli, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j6dcgJcOSzEC&pg=PA569 ''Italia sacra''], second edition Vol. 3 (Venice: Coleti), p. 569.</ref> He and several friends established a community of [[Canons Regular of San Giorgio in Alga]] in his native city in 1400, and received papal approval in November 1404.<ref>G. Cracco, "La fondazione dei canonici secolari di S. Giorgio in Alga," in: ''Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia'' vol. 13 (1959), pp. 70–81. J.N.D. Kelly and M.J. Walsh, ''Oxford Dictionary of Popes'', second edition (OUP 2010), p. 244.</ref> 

On 30 December 1407, at the age of twenty-four, Gabriel was appointed [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Siena–Colle di Val d'Elsa–Montalcino|Bishop of Siena]] by his maternal uncle, [[Pope Gregory XII]]. He was below the minimum age for consecration as a bishop, and therefore his uncle granted him a dispensation; next day, he was granted possession of the diocese, even before the necessary bulls had been prepared.<ref>Eubel I, p. 446.</ref> In [[Republic of Siena|Siena]], the political leaders objected to a bishop who was not only young but also a foreigner. Therefore, in 1408 he resigned the appointment, becoming instead a cleric of the Apostolic Camera (Treasury) and a [[Prothonotary#Catholic Church usage|protonotary apostolic]]. He was named a cardinal by Pope Gregory XII in the consistory of 9 May 1408, and appointed [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)#Cardinal priests|Cardinal Priest]] of the [[titular church]] of [[San Clemente al Laterano|San Clemente]].<ref>Eubel I, pp. 31, 41.</ref><ref name=augnet>[http://augnet.org/default.asp?ipageid=2043 "Pope Eugene IV, augnet] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121248/http://augnet.org/default.asp?ipageid=2043 |date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>

On 7 February 1420, Condulmer was named papal legate at Picenum in the March of Ancona. He was transferred to Bologna in August 1423.<ref>Francesco Scalamonti (1996), ed. C. Mitchell and E. Bodnar, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fx8LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA15 ''Vita Viri Clarissimi Et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani,'']  (''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'', Volume 86, Issues 3-6) (Philadelphia 1996), p. 15.</ref> [[Pope Martin V]] named him Cardinal Priest of the [[Santa Maria in Trastevere|Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere]] in 1427.<ref>Eubel II, p. 63.</ref>