title: Cardinals created by Paul III
text: # Cardinals created by Paul III
  
  Pope Paul III (r. 1534–1549) created 71 cardinals in twelve consistories.
  
  ## 18 December 1534
  
  * Alessandro Farnese, iuniore
  * Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora
  
  ## 21 May 1535
  
  * Nikolaus von Schönberg
  * Girolamo Ghinucci
  * Giacomo Simoneta
  * John Fisher
  * Jean du Bellay
  * Gasparo Contarini
  * Marino Caracciolo
  
  Desiderius Erasmus was offered a cardinal's hat, but he declined.
  
  ## 22 December 1536
  
  * Gian Pietro Carafa
  * Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte
  * Ennio Filonardi
  * Jacopo Sadoleto
  * Cristoforo Giacobazzi
  * Charles de Hémard de Denonville
  * Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
  * Reginald Pole
  * Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós
  * Girolamo Aleandro (created in pectore)
  * Niccolò Caetani
  
  ## 18 October 1538
  
  * Pedro Sarmiento
  
  ## 20 December 1538
  
  * Juan Álvarez de Toledo
  * Pedro Fernández Manrique
  * Robert de Lénoncourt
  * David Beaton
  * Ippolito II d'Este
  * Pietro Bembo
  
  ## 19 December 1539
  
  * Federigo Fregoso
  * Pierre de La Baume
  * Antoine Sanguin
  * Uberto Gambara
  * Pierpaolo Parisio
  * Marcello Cervini
  * Bartolomeo Guidiccioni
  * Ascanio Parisani
  * Dionisio Laurerio
  * Enrique de Borja y Aragón
  * Giacomo Savelli
  * Miguel da Silva
  
  ## 2 June 1542
  
  * Giovanni Morone
  * Marcello Crescenzi
  * Giovanni Vincenzo Acquaviva d'Aragona
  * Pomponio Cecci
  * Roberto Pucci
  * Tommaso Badia
  * Giovanni Andrea Cortese
  * Cristoforo Madruzzo
  
  ## 19 December 1544
  
  * Gaspar de Ávalos de la Cueva
  * Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla
  * Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo
  * Georges d'Armagnac
  * Jacques d'Annebaut
  * Otto Truchsess von Waldburg
  * Andrea Cornaro
  * Francesco Sfondrati
  * Federico Cesi
  * Durante Duranti
  * Niccolò Ardinghelli
  * Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro
  * Tiberio Crispo
  
  ## 16 December 1545
  
  * Pedro Pacheco de Villena
  * Georges II d'Amboise
  * Henrique de Portugal
  * Ranuccio Farnese
  
  ## 27 July 1547
  
  * Charles de Guise
  * Giulio della Rovere
  
  ## 9 January 1548
  
  * Charles de Bourbon-Vendôme
  
  ## 8 April 1549
  
  * Girolamo Verallo
  * Giovanni Angelo de' Medici
  * Filiberto Ferrero
  * Bernardino Maffei
  