Cuno of Praeneste

Kuno of Praeneste (* in the 11th century; † August 9, 1122 in Palestrina) was Cardinal Bishop of Praeneste.

He was a son of Count I. Egino of Dettingen, cardinal and bishop of Palestrina ( Praeneste ) and papal legate in France and Germany.

In 1080 he was chaplain of William the Conqueror in England. In 1090 he lived in a hermitage in Picardy, which was converted in 1097 to the monastery Arrouaise with the permission of the Bishop Lambert of Arras. Kuno of Praeneste was one of the confidants of the Popes Paschal II (1099-1118), Gelasius II (1118-1119) and Callistus II (1119-1124), as well as one of the most influential adviser to the French King Louis VI. ( 1108-1137 ).

In 1108 he became Cardinal Bishop of Praeneste, and from 1114 to 1121 he was papal legate in France and Germany. In this position, he led the fight against the claims of the Emperor Henry V ( 1098-1125 ). He convened and chaired the synod of Beauvais, Fritzlar (1118, on the excommunication against Henry V. was renewed ), Gander Home (July 1118 invalidation of the appointment of the Hildesheim Bishop Bruning ), Soissons ( 1121, summoned to the Peter Abelard and his was sentenced book on the Trinity ), Reims and Chalons- sur -Marne and drove the implementation of the Gregorian reforms ahead.