Niccolò de Chiaramonte
Niccolò de Chiaramonte (d. 25 September 1227) - Italian priest. Curriculum vitae
He came from Sicily. In 1215 he was a papal chaplain and subdiacon. He later became a cistercian monk at Casamari and a papal penitentiary (1217). Later he was probably aboard (about 1218). Pope Honorius III appointed him Cardinal Bishop Tusculum on January 6, 1219. In 1220-22 he was a Papal Legate to the Emperor Frederick II, who had been unsuccessfully trying to persuade him to join the Crusade. January 30, 1222 consecrated the shrine in Cosenza. In 1223 he acted as a legate in southern France against the Cathars, but as a result of complaints about his ruthlessness and avarice in the accumulation of funds for the anti-Western crusade he was quickly dismissed back to Rome. He died shortly after the election of Pope Gregory IX. Bibliography
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