Jordan (Italian: ''Giordano Bobone Orsini''; died after 1154) was a

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monk, created

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Pope Lucius II Pope Lucius II (died 15 February 1145), born Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1144 to his death in 1145. His pontificate was notable for the unrest in Rome associated ...

in December 1144 and then Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna by Eugene III on 21 December 1145.J. M. Brixius, ''Die Mitglieder des Kardinalkollegiums von 1130–1181'' (Berlin: 1912), 52 n7. He is often referred to as a member of the Roman family of the

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, but more recent research concludes that he was probably a Frenchman. He served as

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under Eugene III (attested 8 March 1147 until 1151) and subscribed the papal bulls between 9 January 1145 and 11 June 1154. He was described by

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as mean and parsimonious and dressing in filthy rags as a gesture of austerity. When he was sent with Octavian of Santa Cecilia as a papal legate to summon Conrad III of Germany to Italy to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor, he quarrelled with his co-legate and, in the words of Salisbury, "made the Church a laughingstock." He participated in the papal election of 1153 and perhaps also in the papal election of 1154. The date of his death is uncertain.According to the catalogue of the occupants of the '' titulus'' Santa Susanna
The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: Titulus S. Susanna
he died in 1165. The ''Bulletin de la Société Académique de Laon'', edd. Fleury and Chevergny (1864), 251, indicates that he died in 1159. Zenker, ''Mitglieder'', 104, and Maleczek, ''Papst und Kardinalskolleg'', 244–245 and 410, say that he died in 1154. Brixius, p. 23 note 9, also says that he died probably in 1154 but adds that it is not known whether before or after death of

Pope Anastasius IV Pope Anastasius IV ( – 3 December 1154), born Corrado Demetri della Suburra, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 July 1153 to his death in 1154. He is the most recent pope to take the name "Anastasius" upon his ...

(3 December 1154). Looking at the date of his last subscrpition of the papal bull and the fact that he is listed as participant in a papal election in December 1154, but not in that of 1159 (S. Miranda
Papal election of September 1159
, it is probable that he died at the beginning of the pontificate of

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(1154–59).

Notes

Sources

* Norwich, John Julius. ''The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194''. London: Longmans, 1970.

External links

Cardinal Titulars of Santa Susanna.
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