Peter of Capua the Elder

Peter (centre) mediating between Philip Augustus and Richard the Lionheart. From a 14th-century illuminated manuscript of the Grandes chroniques de France.

Peter of Capua (Italian: Pietro Capuano; Latin: Petrus Capuanus;[a] died 30 August 1214) was an Italian scholastic theologian and prelate. He served as cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata from 1193 until 1201 and cardinal-priest of San Marcello al Corso from 1201 until his death. He often worked as a papal legate. He wrote several theological works and was a patron of his hometown of Amalfi.

He is sometimes called "Peter of Capua the Elder" to distinguish him from his nephew, Peter of Capua the Younger (died 1236), who was also educated in Paris and taught there, and later became a cardinal.[2]

  1. ^ Kamp 1976.
  2. ^ Bird 2017, p. 98.


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