Peter of BeneventoPeter Beneventano, Petrus Beneventanus, Peter of Douai, Pierre Duacensis. (died in September 1219 or 1220) was an Italian canon lawyer, papal legate and cardinal.In 1212
He was closely associated with Pope Innocent III, and produced in 1209/10The Early Humiliati a collection of his decretals, the Compilatio tertia, as an active editor and competing with that of Bernardus Papiensis.
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.Appendix 5: St. Dominic and the Pope in 1215 From there, he took James I of Aragon to Catalonia.PDF
Bibliography 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
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