CRESCENZIO DI ANAGNI

CRESCENZIO of ANAGNI. – Cardinal, who lived between the 11th and 12th centuries. Along with Sasso, also from Anagni, and a group of clerics from the Campagna region, he owed his cardinal’s appointment to Giovanni di Gaeta, chancellor of Paschal II and later pope himself under the name of Gelasius II. Of the presbyteral title of SS. Marcellino e Pietro, in 1130 he was among the electors of Anacletus II. Already rector of Benevento, during the preceding decade he returned under Anacletus to hold power there with a firm hand amid the disturbances into which the factions were throwing the city. In May 1137 the imperial forces, led by Henry of Bavaria and animated by the presence of Innocent II, burst into Benevento and deposed C., thus bringing his activity to a close.