Peter of Benevento

Peter of Benevento[1] (died in September 1219 or 1220) was an Italian canon lawyer, papal legate and Cardinal.[2]

He was closely associated with Pope Innocent III, and produced in 1209/10[3] a collection of his decretals, the Compilatio tertia, as an active editor[4] and competing with that of Bernard of Pavia.[5]

He was sent in 1214 by Innocent to Provence, and there presided over the 1215 Council of Montpellier, directed against the Albigensians and empowering Simon de Montfort.[6] From there he took James I of Aragon to Catalonia.[7]

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Notes

  1. Peter Beneventano, Petrus Beneventanus, Peter of Douai, Pierre Duacensis.
  2. In 1212
  3. The Early Humiliati
  4. http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/his311/InnocentIuscom.htm
  5. http://faculty.cua.edu/Pennington/1140a-b.htm
  6. Appendix 5: St. Dominic and the Pope in 1215
  7. PDF