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Gattinara, Mercurino Arborio, marchese di

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Gattinara, Mercurino Arborio, marchese di (mĕrcrē`nō ärbô`rēō märkĕ`za dē gät'tēnä`rä), 1465–1530, Italian statesman and jurist, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. After a distinguished legal career in his native Piedmont, he served Margaret of Austria 2)). After Charles renounced the treaty and married Anne of Brittany , Margaret was returned (1493) to her father. She was married in 1497 to John of Spain (d. 1497), son of Ferdinand and Isabella, and in 1501 to Philibert of Savoy (d. 1504).
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 as counselor. In 1518 he was made chancellor by the king of Spain, later Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Charles V, 1500–1558, Holy Roman emperor (1519–58) and, as Charles I, king of Spain (1516–56); son of Philip I and Joanna of Castile, grandson of Ferdinand II of Aragón, Isabella of Castile, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Mary of
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. A humanist and a scholar, Gattinara had much influence upon Charles, whom he urged to create a dynastic empire. Gattinara was made a cardinal in 1529.


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