I'm not completely sure of this.
Maybe /this/ is his true identity:
(Gregorio Paparesci dei Guidoni), pope from 30 to 1143, was originally
a Benedictine monk. His ability, pure life and political connections
raised him rapidly to power. Made cardinal deacon of Sant Angelo in
Pescheria by Paschal II. he was employed in various diplomatic
missions. Calixtus II. appointed him one of the ambassadors who made
peace with the Empire and drew up the Concordat of Worms (1122),and in
the following year, with his later enemy Cardinal Peter Pierleoni, he
was papal legate in France. On the i3th of February 1130 Honorius II.
died, and on that night a minority of the Sacred College elected
Paparesci, who took the name of Innocent-j,I. After a hasty
consecration he was forced to take refuge with a friendly noble by the
faction of Pierleoni, whowas elected pope under the name of Anacletus
II. by a majority of the cardinals. Declaring that the cardinals had
been intimidated, Innocent refused to recognize their choice; by June,
however, he was obliged to flee to France. Here his title was
recognized by a synod called by Bernard of Clairvaux at Etampes.
Similar action was taken in Germany by the synod of Wurzburg. tn
January 1131 Innocent held a personal interview with King Henry I. of
England at Chartres, and in March, at Liege, with the German King
Lotbair, whom he induced to undertake a campaign against Anacletus.
The German army invaded Italy in August ff32, and occupied Rome, all
except St Peters church and the castle of St Angelo which held out
against them. Lothair was crowned emperor at the Lateran in June 1133,
and as a further reward Innocent gave him the territories of the
Countess Mathilda as a fief, but refused to surrender the right of
investiture. Left to himself Innocent again had to flee, this time to
Pisa. Here he called a council which condemned Anacletus. A second
expedition of Lothair expelled Roger of Sicily (to whom Anacletus had
given the title of king in return for his support) from southern
Italy, but a quarrel with Innocent prevented the emperor attacking
Rome. At this crisis, in January 1138, Anacletus died, and a successor
elected by his faction, as Victor IV., resigned after two months. The
Lateran council of 1139 restored peace to the Church, excommunicating
Roger of Sicily, against whom Innocent undertook an expedition which
proved unsuccessful. In matters of doctrine the pope supported Bernard
of Clairvaux in his prosecution of Abelard and Arnold of Brescia, whom
he condemned as heretics. The remaining years of Innocents life were
taken up by a quarrel with the Roman commune, which had set up an
independent senate, and one with King Louis VII. of France, about an
appointment. France was threatened with the interdict, but before
matters came to a head Innocent died on the 22nd of September 1143.
I found it in an encyclopedia.
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