Page "Pope Innocent X" Paragraph 7

During the Civil War ( 1642 – 49 ) in England and Ireland, Innocent X strongly supported the independent ( and Catholic ) Confederate Ireland, over the objections of Mazarin and the former British Queen and at that time Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria, exiled in Paris.

The Pope sent as nuncio extraordinary to Ireland, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, archbishop of Fermo, who arrived at Kilkenny with a large quantity of arms, military supplies including twenty thousand pounds of gunpowder, and a very large sum of money .< ref >" con somme cospicue di pecunia ed altre munizioni ", G. Alazzi, Nunciatura in Irlanda di Monsignor Gio.

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