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PANDULPH [PANDOLFO] (d. 1226)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PANDULPH [PANDOLFO] (d. 1226) , See also:Roman ecclesiastical politician, papal See also:legate to See also:England and See also:bishop of See also:Norwich, was See also:born in See also:Rome, and first came to England in 1211, when he was commissioned by See also:Innocent III. to negotiate with See also:King See also:John. Obtaining no satisfactory concessions, he is said to have produced the papal See also:sentence of See also:excommunication in the very presence of the king. In May 1213 he again visited England to receive the king's submission. The ceremony took See also:place at See also:Dover, and on the following See also:day John, of his own See also:motion, formally surrendered England to the representative of Rome to receive it again as a papal See also:fief. Pandulph repaid this See also:act of humility by using every means to avert the threatened See also:French invasion of England. For nearly a See also:year he was superseded by the See also:cardinal-legate See also:Nicholas of TuscuIum; but returning in 1215 was See also:present at the See also:conference of Runnymede, when the See also:great See also:charter was signed. He rendered valuable aid to John who rewarded him with the see of Norwich. The arrival of the cardinal-legate See also:Gualo (1216) relegated Pandulph to a secondary position; but after Gualo's departure (1218) he came forward once more. As representing the See also:pope he claimed a See also:control over See also:Hubert de See also:Burgh and the other ministers of the See also:young See also:Henry III.; and his See also:correspondence shows that he interfered in every See also:department of the See also:administration. His arrogance was tolerated while the regency was still in need of papal assistance; but in 1221 Hubert de Burgh and the See also:primate See also:Stephen See also:Langton successfully moved the pope to recall Pandulph and to send no other legate a latere in his place. Pandulph retained the see of Norwich, but from this See also:time drops out of See also:English politics.

He died in Rome on the 16th of See also:

September 1226 but his See also:body was taken to Norwich for See also:burial. See W. See also:Shirley, Royal and Other See also:Historical Letters (" Rolls See also:series ") vol. i.; See also:Miss K. Norgate, John See also:Lac/See also:eland (1902); W. See also:Stubbs, Constitutional See also:History (1897) vol. i.

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