Uberto Lanfranchi (or Humbert) (died 1137) was the
Cardinal-deacon
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of
Santa Maria in Via Lata
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History
The first Christi ...
(appointed by
Pope Calixtus II
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no later than 1123), then the
Cardinal-priest
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of
San Clemente
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(appointed by
Honorius II in 1126), and finally the
Archbishop of Pisa
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in 1132/3).
Lanfranchi was from northern Italy, either from Pisa, where he had been a regular canon, or from Bologna.
[Richard A. Fletcher (1984), ''Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 216.]
Uberto subscribed a
Papal bull on 6 April 1123 when he was a cardinal-deacon and as cardinal-priest he undersigned bulls between 28 March 1126 and 2 September 1133. In 1129 Humber was sent as a
Papal legate to the
Kingdom of León. Upon his arrival (probably late in 1129 or in the early days of 1130) he met with
Diego Gelmírez
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, the
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
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, for eight days. Afterwards he travelled into
Portugal
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before returning to
Carrión, where he presided over an important synod in February. Uberto, Diego,
Oleguer Bonestruga
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, and the king met privately on the eve of the council to determine the agendum. The council opened on 4 February and closed on the 7th, but a copy its full ''acta'' (decrees) has not survived. Three bishops—
Pelagius of Oviedo
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,
Diego of León, and
Muño of Salamanca—and the abbot of
Samos
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were deposed by the council for having opposed the marriage of Alfonso to
Berenguela of Barcelona on grounds of
consanguinity
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.
[Bernard F. Reilly (1998), ''The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VII, 1126–1157'' (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), 29.] The main source for Uberto's legation to Spain is the ''
Historia Compostellana
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'', which gives him a deferential tone when speaking with Diego. A letter from Humber to Diego dated 1131 is friendly.
[
The date of Uberto's election to the archdiocese of Pisa falls between 13 December 1132 and 21 February 1133. He received episcopal consecration in September 1133 and probably resigned his cardinal's title then. During the papal schism caused by the election of Antipope Anacletus II (1130–38), Uberto remained faithful to Innocent II. In 1135 Uberto established ]Porto Torres
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as the perpetual seat of the Papal legation in Sardinia
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.
See also
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pisa
Notes and references
Bibliography
*Klaus Ganzer. ''Die Entwicklung des auswärtigen Kardinalats in hohen Mittelalter''. Tübingen: 1963.
*Johannes M. Brixius. ''Die Mitglieder des Kardinalkollegiums von 1130–1181''. Berlin: 1912.
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1137 deaths
12th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
Roman Catholic archbishops of Pisa
12th-century Italian cardinals
Year of birth unknown