Goffredo da Alatri

Goffredo di Raynaldo (da Alatri, Goffredo da Alatri, Goffredo di Alatri) (born at Alatri at the beginning of the XIII century, died in Rome, April or May, 1287), was an Italian nobleman, city leader and Roman Catholic cardinal. He was Podestà (chief magistrate) of his native Alatri, a small town in the mountains, east of Anagni, in the last two years of his life.

Goffredo di Raynaldo da Alatri is attested as Canon of the Cathedral of Alatri in 1229. He was also Canon of the Cathedral of Lisbon.

In 1251 he is mentioned as a chaplain of Cardinal Stefano de Normandis of the titulus of Santa Maria in Trastevere, and granted the privilege of being Dean of the Cathedral of Olensis (Holum or Holar, in Iceland) and rector of the church of S. Stefano in Alatri at the same time. He was the Fundator et Auctor of that church, according to an inscription at S. Stefano.

In 1257 he is on record as a Chaplain of Pope Alexander IV and judge in a case between the Bishop of Ascoli and a certain Rinaldo.

Goffredo da Alatri was created cardinal-deacon in the Consistory of 17 (or 24) December, 1261, by Pope Urban IV (Jacques Panteleon). He was assigned the Deaconry of San Giorgio in Velabro (ad velum aureum), which he held for the rest of his life.

On the 5th of May, 1265, Pope Clement IV confirmed a judgment given by Cardinal Goffredo in favor of Roger de Frescobaldi, secular Prior of S. Lorenzo in Florence. On 21 May 1265, he was present in Consistory when an agreement, which had been reached among parties from Perugia over a financial dispute that had arisen during the Sede Vacante of 1261 (25 May – 29 August), was finally ratified by the Pope. On 16 June 1265, he was present in the Roman Curia and was one of eleven cardinals who subscribed a bull of Pope Clement in favor of the monastery of S. Angelo in Donica in the diocese of Camerino; and similarly on 7 July for the monastery of Fructuariensis; and again on 31 July for the monastery of S. Gertrude in Cologne. In 1267, he presided over the negotiations which led to a treaty between the Guelphs and Ghibbelines of the city of Siena, signed on 13 May 1267. Pope Clement IV, who was residing in Viterbo, confirmed the document on 30 May 1267.

He was present at the Second Ecumenical Council of Lyons in 1274. He was one of the cardinals travelling in the suite of Pope Gregory X as he returned to Rome after the Council, and was present at the taking of the Oath of Fealty by Rudolf King of the Romans at Lausanne on October 20, 1275.

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