- Giordano Bobone Orsini
Jordan or Giordano Bobone Orsini (died
1165 or1159 [First date is according to the catalog of the occupants of the "titulus " S. Susanna ( [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/titles-4.htm#Susanna The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: Titulus S. Susanna] ). The second is according to "Bulletin de la Société Académique de Laon", Éd. Fleury et Ad. Chevergny, 1864, p. 251. The second date seems to be more likely because cardinal Giordano is not listed among participants of thepapal election, 1159 (S. Miranda [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/conclave-xii.htm#1159 papal election of September 1159] ) and did not subscribe any papal bulls issued after April 25, 1154.] ) - was aCarthusian monk andCardinal Priest of Santa Susanna , created byPope Eugene III in1145 . He was a member of the Roman family of theOrsini . He served asCamerlengo of the Holy Roman Church underPope Eugene III . He subscribed the papal bulls betweenDecember 31 ,1145 andApril 25 ,1154 [Jaffé Philipp (1819-1870) [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=70317&from=&dirids=1 Regesta pontificum Romanorum ab condita Ecclesia ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII] , Berlin 1851, p. 616 and 653] .He was described by
John of Salisbury as mean and parsimonious and dressing in filthy rags as a gesture of austerity. When he was sent with Octavian of Santa Cecilia as apapal legate to summonConrad III of Germany to Italy to be crownedHoly Roman Emperor , he quarrelled with his co-legate and, in the words of Salisbury, "made the Church a laughingstock." [Norwich, 149–150 and note.]He participated in the
papal election, 1153 [S. Miranda: [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/conclave-xii.htm#1153 papal election, 1153] ] andpapal election, 1154 [S. Miranda [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/conclave-xii.htm#1154 papal election, 1154] ] .Notes
ource
*Norwich, John Julius. "The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194". London: Longmans, 1970.
External links
* [http://www.santasusanna.org/ourUniqueHistory/cardinals.html Cardinal Titulars of Santa Susanna.]
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