Oddone di Monferrato

Oddone di Tonengo ( German: Otto von Tonengo; † 1250/51 ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in the 13th century. He is also under the name Oddone Candidus and Oddone di Montferrato known, since he came from the located in the Margraviate of Montferrat Tonengo. Therefore, it is often attributed to the Margrave of Montferrat family, but this is not supported by any contemporary evidence.

Life

Oddone began his career as a canon in Ivrea and 1224 was one of the ambassadors of the University of Bologna, at the Pope Honorius III. obtained a confirmation of their statutes. After he had risen to the papal chaplain, he was born on September 18, 1227 by Pope Gregory IX. made a cardinal deacon of San Nicola in Carcere Tulliano. In 1229 he was involved in France at the peace negotiations of the legate, Romano Bonaventura for ending the Albigensian Crusade and was subsequently automatically as legate in Germany in the same year. He had campaigned unsuccessfully for a dismissal of the first Emperor Frederick II excommunicated and his son Henry ( VII ). Between January 8 and February 24, 1231 he sat in front of a synod in Würzburg. Back in Italy, he served in 1232 unsuccessfully as an intermediary between the Lombard League and the Emperor.

In the spring of 1237 Oddone was appointed legate for England, Wales and Ireland. At a meeting held in Saint Paul's of London in the same year the Synod he put the primacy in the Church of England hierarchy at York the dispute between the Archbishop of Canterbury and that, by both in a compromise solution at the same height, the former on his right and latter on his left, their places had. As a model, a representation was used in an accompanying him papal bull that showed the hallowed cross, which was right next to the St. Paul and St. Peter, flanked by the left of it. Since then, the Archbishop of Canterbury takes the position of " Primate of All England " and the Archbishop of York, the " Primate of England " one. In June 1239 Oddone initiated in Westminster Abbey, the baptism of the newly born Prince Edward, later King Edward I of England.

In the spring of 1241 Oddone out on his return to Rome, the convocation of a General Council by Pope Gregory IX. following, who had already in 1239 banned the Emperor for the second time. On the sea crossing from Genoa to Rome the Genoese fleet, which transported the council travelers, captured at the Battle of Giglio of an imperial fleet. Almost all Council participants fell into the captivity of the emperor. After adhesive stays in San Miniato, Tivoli and Capua Oddone was released in August 1242 and worked from then moderating to the papal side in the conflict with the Emperor. On May 28, 1244 he was appointed cardinal bishop of Porto IV e Santa Rufina by the new Pope Innocent. Then he was instrumental in the change of Viterbo in the Papal camp, a subsequent peace initiative with Count Raymond VII of Toulouse, on the imperial side was, however, unsuccessful. In November 1244 he accompanied the Pope in exile in Lyon.

Oddone died at the turn of 1250 to 1251 and was buried in the Dominican church of Lyon.