Editing Pope Innocent X (section)

===Early life===
Giovanni Battista Pamphili was born in Rome on 5&nbsp;May 1574, the son of Camillo Pamphili, of the Roman [[Pamphili family]]. The family, originally from [[Gubbio]], was directly descended from [[Pope Alexander VI]].<ref name=Williams>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=George L.|title=Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendants of the Popes|date=2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786420711|page=109|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mq7ctwMNdoC&pg=PA109 |access-date=22 January 2015}}</ref>

In 1594 he graduated from the [[Roman College]] and followed a conventional path through the ranks of the Catholic Church. He served as a consistorial lawyer in 1601, and in 1604 succeeded his uncle, Cardinal Girolamo Pamphili, as auditor of the [[Roman Rota]], the ecclesiastical appellate tribunal. He was also a [[Canon law|canonist]] of the [[Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary]], a second tribunal.<ref name=Miranda>{{cite web| url = http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1627.htm#Pamphili| title = Miranda, Salvador. 'Pamphilj, Giambattista (1574–1655)', The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church| access-date = 2016-06-12| archive-date = 2015-04-30| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150430141822/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1627.htm#Pamphili| url-status = dead}}</ref>

In 1623 [[Pope Gregory XV]] sent him as [[apostolic nuncio]] (ecclesiastical diplomat) to the court of the [[Kingdom of Naples]].<ref>''Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome'', Igrid Rowland, ''A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition'', Ed. Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam, (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010), 253. {{ISBN?}}</ref> In 1625 [[Pope Urban VIII]] sent him to accompany his nephew, [[Francesco Barberini (seniore)|Francesco Barberini]], whom he had accredited as nuncio, first to [[Kingdom of France|France]] and then [[Habsburg Spain|Spain]].<ref>Boutry,  Philippe. "Innocent X", ''The Papacy: An Encyclopedia'', Vol. 2, ed. Philippe Levillain, (Routledge, 2002), 801. {{ISBN?}}</ref> In January 1626, Pamphili was appointed titular Latin Patriarch of Antioch.{{Sfn|Ott|1910|p=[https://archive.org/details/catholicencyclo02unkngoog/page/n46/ 20]|ps=: "Urban VIII&nbsp;... appointed him titular Latin Patriarch of Antioch, and nuncio at Madrid."}}

In reward for his labors, in May 1626 Giovanni Battista was made nuncio to the court of [[Philip IV of Spain]].{{Sfn|Ott|1910|p=[https://archive.org/details/catholicencyclo02unkngoog/page/n46/ 20]|ps=: "Urban VIII&nbsp;... appointed him titular Latin Patriarch of Antioch, and nuncio at Madrid."}} The position led to a lifelong association with the Spaniards which was of great use during the [[Papal conclave, 1644|papal conclave of 1644]]. He was created Cardinal ''in pectore'' in 1627 and published in 1629.