Gerardo Allucingoli

Gerardo Allucingoli (died 1208) was an Italian cardinal and cardinal-nephew of Pope Lucius III, who elevated him in 1182.

He served as papal notar under Pope Alexander III and exercised the functions of Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church without having the title between November 11, 1166 and March 2, 1168 and between May 16 and November 11, 1169. After the election of his uncle to the papacy (September 1, 1181) he was named Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church (ca.1181 until ca. 1184), and then cardinal-deacon of S. Adriano (probably in December 1182). He signed the papal bulls between January 2, 1183 and April 19, 1205. Papal vicar of Rome 1184 until 1188. He participated in the papal election, 1191 and papal election, 1198. He was elected bishop of Lucca in 1195 but Pope Celestine III did not ratify this election. Legate in France and Italy on several occasions. Cardinal-protodeacon from 1203. Pope Innocent III appointed him spiritual and secular vicar of the Kingdom of Sicily in April 1204. His name appears for the last time in the document dated July 20, 1208.

Bibliography

Werner Maleczek, Papst und Kardinalskolleg von 1191 bis 1216: die Kardinäle unter Coelestin III. und Innocenz III. Wien 1984, pp. 78-79