# Cardinal Courtleigh — Hadrian the Seventh character guide

> Cardinal Courtleigh in Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Courtleigh, Dr. Courtleigh

**First appearance:** 0012-ix

## Who they are

A cardinal and physician who attends to Hadrian.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hadrian_the_seventh_se/chapters/ii)

Appointed as a Compromissary; spends evening alone reading archiepiscopal correspondence and reflecting.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hadrian_the_seventh_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned as one of the nine Cardinal-Compromissaries who elected Hadrian.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hadrian_the_seventh_se/chapters/v)

Labelled an 'academic anarchist' by Orezzo, later invited by Hadrian to Castel Gandolfo.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hadrian_the_seventh_se/chapters/vi)

Defends the clergy but ultimately submits to Hadrian's authority and explains the election process.

### [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hadrian_the_seventh_se/chapters/xxi)

Pleads age and infirmity, is relieved of his archbishopric by Hadrian, and asks to end his days in the college he founded.

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