Roscemanno, O.S.B.Cas. (died in 1128 or later) was a Roman Catholic

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and Deacon of

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. He was the son of the monk Roscemanno. He himself became a monk at the Benedictine abbey of

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. Roscemanno was named a cardinal by

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, at the same time as Oderisius II, abbot of

, probably in 1111 or 1112. He is not named as one of the cardinals who was taken prisoner, along with Pope Paschal, on 12 February 1111, or made to swear the oath in the name of the pope to accept the agreement with

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. He was one of the cardinals who condemned the "Privilegium" granted by

to King Henry at the Lateran synod of March 1112. He participated in the

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of 24 January 1118. On 12 April 1118, Roscemann was in Capua with the papal court, and signed a document. In July, the pope and the court returned to Rome, but the pressure of the antipope and the Frangipani compelled them to flee again, on 2 September 1118. The pope and six cardinals, including Rosceman, took ship for Pisa. There is no evidence for any activity of Roscemann at Pisa. He is said to have participated in the

at Cluny on 2 February 1119, according to Petrus Diaconus. In 1120, during his visit to Benevento,

Pope Calixtus II Pope Callixtus II or Callistus II ( – 13 December 1124), born Guy of Burgundy, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 February 1119 to his death in 1124. His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, ...

removed Stephanus, the Rector of Benevento, who had succeeded Cardinal Hugo d' Alatri, and replaced him with the Deacon Roscemannus. He served until 1122. His latest known subscription to a papal document was on 4 September 1128 in Benevento.Hüls, p. 227, with note 14. Pope Honorius was in Benevento (with side trips) from June until the end of September 1128: Jaffé, pp. 833-834.

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Bibliography

* Gregorovius, Ferdinand (1896)
''History of Rome in the Middle Ages''
Volume IV. part 2, second edition (London: George Bell, 1896). * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roscemanno 1128 deaths 12th-century Italian cardinals Cardinal-deacons Year of birth unknown