The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

Biographical Dictionary
Pope Urban III (1185-1187)
Consistory of Saturday of Pentecost 1186


(1) 1. ROBERTO (?-ca. 1189)

Birth. (No date or place found).

Education. (No information found).

Cardinalate. Created cardinal bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in the consistory of Saturday of Pentecost 1186. Consecrated (no information found). Did not participate in the first papal election of 1187, in which Pope Gregory VIII was elected. Did not participate in the second papal election of 1187, in which Pope Clement III was elected.

Death. Ca. 1189, Rome. Buried (no information found).

Bibliography. "Essai de liste générale des cardinaux. Les cardinaux du XIIè siècle", Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1928. Paris : Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1928, p. 153.

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(2) 2. SULLY, O.Cist., Henri de (?-1200)

Birth. (No date found), Soliac, Berry, France. Second of the six children of Archambaud, sire de Sully, third count of Bourbon, and Mahaut de Boisgency. Relative of the royal families of France and England. His last name is also listed as Sulli.

Education. Entered the Order of the Cistercians in the diocese of Senlis.

Priesthood. Ordained (no further information found). Archmandrite of the monastery Callense, diocese of Senlis. Abbot of the monastery of Notre-Dame de Saint-Lieu.

Episcopate. Elected patriarch and archbishop of Bourges in 1183. Consecrated by Cardinal Uberto Crivelli, future Pope Urban III.

Cardinalate. Created cardinal priest in the consistory of Saturday of Pentecost 1186; his title is unknown. Legate in Aquitaine. Consecrated the church of Saint-Pierre, Saintes, in the presence of the archbishop of Bourdeaux. Did not participate in any of the conclaves celebrated during his cardinalate.

Death. September 1200, Bourges. Buried in the Cistercian monastery of Notre-Dame de Saint-Lieu, with a brief epitaph.

Bibliography. Anselme de Sainte-Marie ; Dufourny, Honoré Caille ; Ange de Sainte-Rosalie ; Simplicien. Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne & de la maison du roy: & des anciens barons du royaume: avec les qualitez, l'origine, le progres & les armes de leurs familles; ensemble des statuts & le catalogue des chevaliers, cammandeurs, & officiers de l'ordre du S. Esprit. Le tout dresse sur titres originaux, sur les registres des chartes du roy, du parlement, de la chambre des comptes & du chatelet des Paris ... & d'autres cabinets curieux. 9 vols. Paris : La Compagnie des libraires, 3. éd., rev., corrigée & augmentée par les soins du P. Ange & du P. Simplicien, 1726-1733, ; Berton, Charles. Dictionnaire des cardinaux, contenant des notions générales sur le cardinalat, la nomenclature complète ..., des cardinaux de tous les temps et de tous les pays ... les détails biographiques essentiels sur tous les cardinaux ... de longues études sur les cardinaux célèbre ... Paris : J.-P. Migne, 1857 ; Facsimile edition. Farnborough ; Gregg, 1969, col. 1071; Cardella, Lorenzo. Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa. Rome : Stamperia Pagliarini, 1792, I, pt. 2, 156-157; Chacón, Alfonso. Vitæ, et res gestæ Pontificvm Romanorum et S. R. E. Cardinalivm ab initio nascentis Ecclesiæ vsque ad Vrbanvm VIII. Pont. Max. 2 volumes. Romae : Typis Vaticanis, 1677, I, col. 1128; Du Chesne, François. Histoire de tous les cardinaux françois : de naissance, ou qui ont esté promeus au cardinalat par l'expresse recommandation de nos roys, pour les grands services qu'ils ont rendus a leur estat, et a leur couronne. Comprenant commairement leurs legations, ambassades & voyages par eux faits en divers pays & royaumes, vers les papes, empereurs, roys, potentats, republiques, communautex & universitez, pour affaires importantes à l'église universelle, & à l'auguste majesté de nos souuerains. Enrichie de leurs armes et de leurs portraits. Divisée en deux tomes, et justifiée par tiltres et chartres du thresor de sa majesté, arrests des parlemens de France, registres des Chambres des comptes; donations, fondations, epitaphes, testamens, manuscripts, ancients monumens, chroniques & chartulaires d'abbayes, & autres histoires publiques & particlieres. 2 vols. A Paris : Aux despens de l'autheur, & se vendent chez luy ..., 1660, II, 183-184; "Essai de liste générale des cardinaux. Les cardinaux du XIIè siècle", Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1928. Paris : Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1928, p. 153; Moroni, Gaetano. Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni. 103 vols. in 53. Venezia : Tipografia Emiliana, 1840-1861, LXXI, 34.

Webgraphy. Arms and biography in Histoire de tous les cardinaux françois de naissance, ou qui ont esté promeus au cardinalat. [Volume 1] / by François Duchesne (1616-1693). Auteur du texte, in French, p. 183-184, Gallica; his genealogy, A1 B2, Genealogy.EU.

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(3) 3. GEREMEI, Ugo (?-ca. 1188)

Birth. (No date), Bologna. Of a noble family. His last name is also listed as Hieramea.

Education. (No information found).

Cardinalate. Created cardinal deacon of S. Teodoro in the consistory of Saturday of Pentecost 1186 (1).

Death. Before March 1188, Rome. Buried (no information found).

Bibliography. "Essai de liste générale des cardinaux. Les cardinaux du XIIè siècle". Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1928. Paris : Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1928, p. 153-154; Moroni, Gaetano. Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni. 103 vols. in 53. Venezia : Tipografia Emiliana, 1840-1861, XXIX, 88.

(1) This is according to "Essai de liste générale des cardinaux. Les cardinaux du XIIè siècle", Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1928, p. 153; Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni, XXIX, 88, says that he was created cardinal by Pope Honorius II in December 1125 and that he subscribed a papal bull on July 21, 1126, in favor of Rogerio, archbishop of Pisa; that he opted for the order of cardinal priests and the title of S. Lorenzo in Lucina; and that he died during the pontificate of that pope, which ended on February 14, 1130. He may be the same as Cardinal Ugo Geremei (1125).

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(4) 4. GANDOLFO, O.S.B. (?-1229)

Birth. (No date found), Piacenza.

Education. Entered the Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines) in the monastery of S. Sisto in Piacenza.

Priesthood. Ordained (no further information found). Elected abbot of the monastery of S. Sisto in Piacenza.

Cardinalate. Created cardinal deacon of Ss. Cosma e Damiano in the consistory of Saturday of Pentecost 1186. There is no record that he participated in any of the conclaves that took place during his cardinalate. Some sources doubt that he was ever created cardinal (1).

Death. 1229, (no place found). Buried (no information found).

Bibliography. Berton, Charles. Dictionnaire des cardinaux, contenant des notions générales sur le cardinalat, la nomenclature complète ..., des cardinaux de tous les temps et de tous les pays ... les détails biographiques essentiels sur tous les cardinaux ... de longues études sur les cardinaux célèbre ... Paris : J.-P. Migne, 1857 ; Facsimile edition. Farnborough ; Gregg, 1969, col. 955; Cardella, Lorenzo. Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa. Rome : Stamperia Pagliarini, 1792, I, pt. 2, 157-159; Chacón, Alfonso. Vitæ, et res gestæ Pontificvm Romanorum et S. R. E. Cardinalivm ab initio nascentis Ecclesiæ vsque ad Vrbanvm VIII. Pont. Max. 2 volumes. Romae : Typis Vaticanis, 1677, I, col. 1128; Moroni, Gaetano. Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni. 103 vols. in 53. Venezia : Tipografia Emiliana, 1840-1861, XXVIII, 164.

(1) He may be the same as Cardinal Gandolfo, O.S.B., created in 1176.

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