MATTEO, bishop of ALBANO. - Cardinal, born at Laon about 1085, died at Pisa on 28 Dec. 1134.
First a Cistercian at St-Martin-des-Champs in Paris, he later joined the Cluniacs (1122), attracted by Pietro il Venerabile, who took him with him to Rome, where Onorio II in 1126 created him cardinal bishop of Albano and sent him the following year as his legate to France. There he convened several synods: at Troyes, Rouen, and Reims in 1128, at Chalon and Paris in 1129. Against the antipope Anacleto he took the side of Innocenzo II, who sent him to Germany, where he held a synod at Mainz. Having fallen from the Pope's favour, he was recalled to Rome; after the Council of Pisa (1134), he was sent with St Bernard to Milan to bring back to obedience to the Pope the adherents of Anacleto. On his return, he died at Pisa.