Peter of Benevento
Peter of Benevento (died in September 1219 or 1220) was an Italian canon lawyer, papal legate and cardinal. He was closely associated with Pope Innocent III, and produced in 1209/10 a collection of his decretals, the Compilatio tertia, as an active editor and competing with that of Bernardus Papiensis. He was sent in 1214 by  Innocent  to Provence, and there presided over the 1215 Council of Montpellier, directed against the Albigensians and empowering Simon de Montfort. From there he took James I of Aragon to Catalonia. References
 K. Pennington, The Making of a Decretal Collection: The Genesis of Compilatio tertia. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law Salamanca (1980)
 James M. Powell, Innocent III and Petrus Beneventanus: Reconstructing a Career at the Papal Curia, in Pope Innocent II and His World (1999) editor John C. Moore
 Werner Maleczek, Papst und Kardinalskolleg von 1191 bis 1216, Vienna 1984

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13th-century deaths
People from Benevento
13th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinal-bishops of Sabina
Cardinals created by Pope Innocent III
13th-century Italian jurists
Canon law jurists
Year of birth unknown