Peter of Capua the Younger

Peter of Capua (c. 1180 – 23 March 1236), known in Italian as Pietro Capuano,[1] was an Italian theologian and clergyman who taught at the University of Paris from 1206 to 1218, was briefly patriarchate-designate of Antioch in 1219 and was then cardinal-deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro from 1219 until his death. The scion of an illustrious family from the Kingdom of Sicily and educated at Paris, he became known in Rome as a friend of the French church and of the Holy Roman Emperor.

He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his uncle, Peter of Capua the Elder.[2]

  1. ^ Miranda 2018 gives the alternative Italian form Pietro da Capua. Kamp 1976 gives two Latin forms: Petrus Capuanus and Petrus de Capua.
  2. ^ Bird 2017, p. 98. Miranda 2018 uses the Latin minor and maior.