- Pelagio Galvani
Pelagio Galvani [Pelagio Galvão, Pelayo Gaytan, Pelagio di Santa Lucia, Pelagius of Albano, Pelagius of St Lucia, Pelagius Albanensis.] (b. ca.
1165 ,Guimaraes or Gusindos, León — d.1230 or1240 ,Montecassino ) was a Portuguese or Leonese [Antonio García y García, ‘La canonística ibérica (1150–1250)en la investigación reciente’, Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, 11 (1981), 41–75, at pp. 54–55]Benedictine , Cardinal, andcanon lawyer . [http://faculty.cua.edu/Pennington/1140i-p.htm] He became apapal legate and leader of theFifth Crusade .He entered the Order of Benedictines in
1178 and studied theology inParis .Pope Innocent III created him Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lucia in Septisolio in1205 (or in March1206 ). Later, he was promoted to the rank of Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia (betweenFebruary 25 andMay 31 ,1211 ), and finally opted for thesuburbicarian see of Albano in the spring of1213 . He was sent on a diplomatic mission toConstantinople in 1213. Dispatched byPope Honorius III to lead theFifth Crusade atDamietta in Egypt, he made a poor strategic decision in turning down peace offers made byAl-Kamil . He becamedean of the Sacred College of Cardinals at the election to the papacy of Cardinal Ugolino Conti (Pope Gregory IX ) onMarch 19 1227 [He was Cardinal-Bishop next to Ugolino Conti in the order of seniority.] . It is known that he died atMontecassino but the date of his death is uncertain and fluctuates in the sources betweenJanuary 30 , 1230 [Donovan, Pelagius and the fifth crusade, p. 115] andJanuary 29 , 1240 [Pius Bonifatius Gams," Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae", p. XXII] . The last papal bull signed by him is datedJanuary 26 , 1230.References
*Joseph P. Donovan (1950), "Pelagius and the Fifth Crusade"
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1205.htm#Galvao Biographical entry]
* [http://www.araldicavaticana.com/cardG.htm Araldica Vaticana]
* [http://libro.uca.edu/scp/spc12.htm Peter Linehan: "The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the 13th Century", Ch. 12 (Spaniards at the Curia)]Notes
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