Romano Bonaventura
Romano Bonaventura (before 1216–20 February 1243bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina (1231–1243), a cardinal-legate to the court of France.
He was also listed as Romano Papareschi,Papal election, 1241, at which Romano was prominent among the papabili known to wish to continue Gregory IX's hostility towards Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, who surrounded Rome with his armies, blocking the arrival of some cardinal electors known to be hostile to his interests.
Romano was a jurist. As cardinal-legate to France, he summoned the Council of Bourges (1225), directed towards funding the Albigensian Crusade.[4]
Notes
- ^ Date of death according to the necrology of S. Maria in Trastevere (ed. Egidi).
- ^ Joseph R. Strayer, The Albigensian Crusades, (University of Michigan Press, 1992), 128.
- ^ Miranda, "Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church": Romano Bonaventura.
- ^ Joseph R. Strayer, 128-129.
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