Peter of Benevento explained

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 Bernardus Papiensis.^[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]

References

• K. Pennington, The Making of a Decretal Collection: The Genesis of Compilatio tertia. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law Salamanca (1980)
• James M. Powell, Innocent III and Petrus Beneventanus: Reconstructing a Career at the Papal Curia, in Pope Innocent II and His World (1999) editor John C. Moore
• Werner Maleczek, Papst und Kardinalskolleg von 1191 bis 1216, Vienna 1984

Notes

1. Peter Beneventano, Petrus Beneventanus, Peter of Douai, Pierre Duacensis.
2. http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/consistories-xiii.htm In 1212
3. https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=104981960 The Early Humiliati
4. Web site: Archived copy . 2007-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20000919190554/http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/his311/InnocentIuscom.htm . 2000-09-19 . dead .
5. Web site: BioBib Report.
6. http://www.domcentral.org/trad/domwork/domworka5.htm Appendix 5: St. Dominic and the Pope in 1215
7. http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Ausa/article/viewFile/16544/16384 PDF