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Uberto Lanfranchi (or Humbert) (died 1137) was the
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of
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(appointed by
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no later than 1123), then the
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of
San Clemente San Clemente (; Spanish for " St. Clement") is a city in Orange County, California. Located in the Orange Coast region of the South Coast of California, San Clemente's population was 64,293 in at the 2020 census. Situated roughly midway betwee ...
(appointed by
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in 1126), and finally the
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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
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to the
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. Upon his arrival (probably late in 1129 or in the early days of 1130) he met with
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, the
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, for eight days. Afterwards he travelled into
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before returning to Carrión, where he presided over an important synod in February. Uberto, Diego,
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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—
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,
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, and
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—and the abbot of
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were deposed by the council for having opposed the marriage of Alfonso to
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on grounds of
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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 ''
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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
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(1130–38), Uberto remained faithful to Innocent II. In 1135 Uberto established
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as the perpetual seat of the Papal legation in
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.


See also

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pisa The Archdiocese of Pisa ( la, Archidioecesis Pisana) is a metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in Pisa, Italy.


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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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lanfranchi, Uberto
1137 deaths 12th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Roman Catholic archbishops of Pisa 12th-century Italian cardinals Year of birth unknown