BERNARDO, vescovo di PARMA. - Elected in 1169 and confirmed the following year, he worked as lord of the city and the countryside of Parma to protect it from enemy incursions by seeing to the fortification of its suburbs. He considerably enlarged the episcopal palace. He was the first bishop of Parma who assumed the title of count. In 1179 he attended the Lateran Council. By virtue of article 8 of the Peace of Constance he had confirmed the right to elect the podestà of Parma. In recognition of his loyalty toward the empire, he received the castle of Castrignano. Together with the emperor he subscribed the conditions of peace imposed on the city of Crema, and he took part in the treaty between Parma and Piacenza. Died 18 Nov. 1194.

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BIBL.: G. Allodi, Serie dei vescovi di Parma, I, Parma 1856, p. 303 ff.; Cappelletti, XV, p. 162; F. Kahn, Italia pontificia, V, Berlin 1911, p. 418; N. Pellicelli, I vescovi della Chiesa parmente, in Eco della Curia di Parma, 1931, p. 212; 1932, p. 36.

Agostino Amore

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Bernardo, Bishop of Parma

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