Hugh ( it, Ugo) was the

Archbishop of Capua The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capua ( la, Archidioecesis Capuana) is an archdiocese (originally a suffragan bishopric) of the Roman Catholic Church in Capua, in Campania, Italy, but its archbishop no longer holds metropolitan rank and has no e ...

(as Hugh II) in the late 1140s and

Archbishop of Palermo The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palermo ( la, Archidioecesis Panormitana) was founded as the Diocese of Palermo in the first century and raised to the status of archdiocese in the 11th century.Geoffrey, the former bishop of Dol, was appointed to the Capuan see about 1145. At some point after that and before 1150, Hugh became archbishop in Capua.G. A. Loud, ''The Latin Church in Norman Italy'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 536–37. In 1150, pursuant to an agreement between King Roger II of Sicily and Pope Eugene III, Hugh was transferred from Capua to the see of Palermo. The previous archbishop-elect, Roger Fesca, is last recorded in March 1147. He had either died or been rejected in the interim.Loud, ''Latin Church'', p. 230. The transfer of Hugh formally took place at

Ferentino Ferentino is a town and ''comune'' in Italy, in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, southeast of Rome. It is situated on a hill above sea level, in the Monti Ernici area. History ''Ferentinum'' was a town of the Hernici; it was captured from the ...

in November. Eugene granted Hugh the ''

pallium The pallium (derived from the Roman ''pallium'' or ''palla'', a woolen cloak; : ''pallia'') is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the pope, but for many centuries bestowed by the Holy See upon metropol ...

'' but refused to confirm the metropolitan authority previously granted to Palermo by the Antipope

Anacletus II Anacletus II (died January 25, 1138), born Pietro Pierleoni, was an antipope who ruled in opposition to Pope Innocent II from 1130 until his death in 1138. After the death of Pope Honorius II, the college of cardinals was divided over his succ ...

.Donald Matthew, ''The Norman Kingdom of Sicily'' (Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 61. At Easter 1151, Hugh, using the authority of the ''pallium'', consecrated Roger II's son

William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

as co-king at Palermo. When Roger died in 1154, William succeeded him. In 1155 rebels seized the castle of Butera and began raiding the Sicilian countryside. When inquiries were made, the rebels professed loyalty to the king and alleged that Archbishop Hugh was plotting with the Admiral

Maio of Bari Maio of Bari ( it, Maione da Bari) (died 10 November 1160) was the third of the great admirals of Sicily and the most important man in the Norman kingdom of Sicily during the reign of William I (1154–66). Lord Norwich calls him "one of the mos ...

to overthrow William and install Maio as king. These claims are contradicted by the trust William placed in Hugh and Maio during his lengthy illness that year, from September to Christmas. Later, Hugh and Maio were among the negotiators of the

Treaty of Benevento The Treaty of Benevento or Concordat of Benevento (18 June 1156) was an important treaty between the papacy of Adrian IV and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. After years of turbulent relations, the popes finally settled down to a peace with the Haut ...

with Pope

Adrian IV Pope Adrian IV ( la, Adrianus IV; born Nicholas Breakspear (or Brekespear); 1 September 1159, also Hadrian IV), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 4 December 1154 to his death in 1159. He is the only Englishman ...

in 1156.Matthew, ''Norman Kingdom'', pp. 64–65. On the night of 10 November 1160, Maio was living the house of the archbishop, where Hugh lay ill, when he was attacked and killed by Matthew Bonnell. The date of Hugh's death is uncertain. Archbishop Romuald II of Salerno officiated at the coronation of William II in May 1166, suggesting that at that time the see of Palermo was vacant. Falcandus implies that there had been repeated failed attempts to elect an archbishop to the vacant see before the election of Stephen du Perche in November 1167. This would seem to place Hugh's death several years earlier, whereas a donation of land to the archdiocese dated April 1145 shows that Palermo at that time still had an archbishop. Hugh commissioned Latin translations of Greek works from

Henry Aristippus Henry Aristippus of Calabria (born in Santa Severina in 1105–10; died in Palermo in 1162), sometimes known as Enericus or Henricus Aristippus, was a religious scholar and the archdeacon of Catania (from c. 1155) and later chief ''familiaris'' of ...

, who was active in Palermo throughout the 1150s.Matthew, ''Norman Kingdom'', p. 119.

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