Giordano Orsini (died 1173)
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Jordan or Giordano Orsini was the Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna from 1145 to 1173. He was a member of the Roman family of the Orsini. He was a member of the Carthusian Order and was made Lord Chamberlain to Pope Eugene III.
He was described by John of Salisbury as mean and parsimonious and dressing in filthy rags as a gesture of austerity. When he was sent with Octavian of Santa Cecilia as a papal legate to summon Conrad III of Germany to Italy to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor, he quarrelled with his co-legate and, in the words of Salisbury, "made the Church a laughingstock."[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Norwich, 149–150 and note.
[edit] Source
- Norwich, John Julius. The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194. London: Longmans, 1970.
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