BERNARD of S. PIETRO IN VINCOLI. - Cardinal of the 12th century, created by Alexander III with the title of S. Nicola in Carcere, probably in 1178, and upon the death of Cardinal Guglielmo, transferred to the presbyteral title of S. Pietro in Vincoli. Celestine III and Innocent III entrusted him with important legations in the final years of the 12th century. Pope Innocent, immediately after his election, sent him with his colleague Pandolfo Pisano to Tuscany and Spoleto, and the following year (early 1199), alone, to Lombardy, to defend, as he did with great authority and learning, the rights of the Holy See against the metropolitans and the communes. He may have died in the same year, 1199.
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