monastery St. Georgenberg where he was held in ecclesiastical custody and under the supervision of the government in Innsbruck. Through papal diplomacy, first of all by cardinal nephew (papal nepot) Ludovico Ludovisi, Khlesl could be transferred to Castel Sant’ Angelo in Rome on October 23, 1622 and the accusations against him were so reduced that no legitimation for his arrest remained. On June 18, 1623 Pope Gregor XV released him from custody. In Rome Khlesl carried on political activities in support for his earlier enemies Maximilian I from Bavaria and Johann Schweikhart von Cronberg, Elector of Mainz. In Vienna this policy was seen as revenge on the emperor. To get Khlesl out of Rome, Ferdinand II, now emperor, accepted full satisfaction for Cardinal Khlesl. Pope Urban VIII cleared Khlesl of any quilt and in the Autumn of 1626 he was allowed to leave Rome. On January 25, 1628 Khlesl entered the cathedral of St. Stephan in Vienna in a festive procession and resumed his episcopate. Though the catholic alliance seemed to be very successful in the war against the protestant princes and their allies, Ferdinand II, influenced by his Jesuit confessor Wilhelm Lamormaini, wanted to exploit the victories to continue to push protestant princes back as far as possible; but Khlesl held to his conviction that the war could not be won and it would be better for the emperor and the Roman Catholic Church to proceed more prudently. He died in Wiener Neustadt in 1630. His heart reposes before the high altar of the cathedral of Wiener Neustadt while his body rests in the cathedral of St. Stephen's, Vienna. Inhabitants of Vienna will recognize Klesl's name first and foremost because Khleslplatz (Khlesl Square) in Vienna's 12th district, Meidling, in the former village of Altmannsdorf, has been named after the cardinal, allegedly because he used to stop at No.12 on his journeys from Wiener Neustadt to Vienna. Since 1978, the 16th century building has housed the Renner-Institut, the political academy of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, while No.6 was, until 1998, the site of the Tierschutzhaus of the Wiener Tierschutzverein (founded in 1846), where generations of animal lovers would go to collect homeless pets. Episcopal succession While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of: Péter Pázmány, Archbishop of Esztergom (1617); Lilio Livioi, Auxiliary Bishop of Constantinople (1625); Vincenzo Martinelli (bishop), Bishop of Conversano (1625); and Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta,