Editing Pope Innocent IX (section)

==Papacy==
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|image      = C o a Inocentius IX.svg
|dipstyle   = [[His Holiness]]
|offstyle   = Your Holiness
|relstyle   = Holy Father
|deathstyle = None
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{{main|1591 papal conclave}}
[[File:001-19 Innocentius papa face.jpg|thumb|Medal of Innocent IX (1591).]]
Even before Pope Gregory XIV died, Spanish and anti-Spanish factions were electioneering for the next pope. [[Philip II of Spain]]'s (r. 1556–1598) high-handed interference at the previous [[Papal conclave|conclave]] was not forgotten: he had barred all but seven cardinals. This time the Spanish party in the [[College of Cardinals]] did not go so far, but they still controlled a majority, and after a quick conclave they raised Facchinetti to the papal chair as Pope Innocent IX. It took three ballots to elect him as pope. Facchinetti received 24 votes on 28 October but was not successful. He received 28 votes on 29 October in the second ballot while the third saw him prevail.<ref name=Adams>{{cite web|url=http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1591.html|author=Adams, John Paul|title=Sede Vacante 1591|date=24 July 2015|access-date=21 January 2019}}</ref> Facchinetti took his papal name to honor [[Pope Innocent III]].
[[File:Innocent9.jpg|thumb|[[Engraving]] by [[Agostino Carracci]], 1591]]
The cardinal [[protodeacon]] [[Andreas von Austria]] crowned Innocent IX as pontiff on 3 November 1591. He elevated two cardinals to the cardinalate in the only papal consistory of his papacy on 18 December 1591.

Mindful of the origin of his success, Innocent IX supported, during his two months' pontificate, the cause of Philip II and the [[Catholic League (French)|Catholic League]] against [[Henry IV of France]] (r. 1589–1610) in the [[French Wars of Religion]] (1562–1598), where a Papal army was in the field.<ref>McBrien 2000, p. 296.</ref>

His grandnephew Giovanni Antonio Cardinal Facchinetti de Nuce Jr., was one of two cardinals appointed during the weeks of Innocent IX's pontificate. A later member of the cardinalate was his great-grandnephew [[Cesare Facchinetti]] (made a cardinal in 1643).