In 64 BC, he sided with the Romans helping Pompey's legate Lucius Afranius when the latter occupied northern Mesopotamia, but it is alleged that he helped to betray Marcus Crassus by leading him out onto an open plain, resulting in 53 BC in the Battle of Carrhae, which destroyed an entire Roman army.
Upon returning to German, however, the Pope appointed him Archbishop of Prussia, Livonia, and Estonia, and later also a legate to Gotland, Holstein, Rügen, and Russia.
Alexander was probably at the 1125 church council held at Westminster by the papal legate John of Crema, and shortly afterwards accompanied the legate on his journey back to Rome.
On 15 August 1932, he was appointed legate to the celebration of Our Lady of Caravaggio; on 21 March 1934, to the millennial anniversary of Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland; on 15 September 1937, to the inauguration of the new facade of the cathedral of Desio; and on 2 August 1951, to the National Eucharistic Conference in Assisi.
The Spartans held out but one of the joint commanders, Dexagoridas, decided to surrender the city to the Roman legate.
The pope settled a dispute over the abbey's consecration with the Archbishop of Tours by himself sending a legate to consecrate it.
Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon (1668-1710), Papal legate to India and China and Cardinal
The latter, acting as the legate of Pope Gregory XI, directed the savage murder of between 2,500 and 5,000 civilians.
Cestius Gallus, Roman legate of Syria at the start of the first Jewish-Roman War, defeated by Eleazar ben Simon at Beth Horon in 66 CE
In 1102 Dagobert of Pisa was deposed as Patriarch by the papal legate, Robert Cardinal of Paris, on charges of misconduct brought by the King of Jerusalem, Baldwin I.
In July 1643 Rapaccioli was elevated to cardinal by Pope Urban VIII, was made papal legate to the Province of Viterbo and Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via Lata.
In June 1002 he was sent as an imperial legate to the Synod of Pöhlde to mediate between the claims of Bernard, Bishop of Hildesheim, and Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz, concerning the control of the abbey of Gandersheim.
A new, but futile, round of negotiations started in May 1419 in Gniewków with papal legate Bartholomew Capri, archbishop of Milan, as mediator.
It records how a legate of Illyricum entered relations of peace or war with the Cotini and Anarti.
Guala Bicchieri (c. 1150 – 1227), Italian diplomat and papal legate in England
When he arrived in Athens in February, 1837, he was received suspiciously by the English legate Lyons (who had been a supporter of his predecessor, von Armansperg) and immediately found himself at also odds with the king over the role of the prime minister.
A note written by the papal legate in Avignon indicated that L'Héritier was still alive in 1552.
First Calvus used to be a Praetor, later a Consul and Governor of Hispania in 142 BC, where he fought, without success, against Viriathus, then he became a Proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul in 141 BC, and in 140 BC—139 BC he was a Legate.
By his wife, whose name is unknown, Plancus had a son and a daughter: Lucius Munatius Plancus (ca 45 BC - aft. 14), consul in 13 and legate in 14, who married Aemilia Paulla, daughter of Aemilius Lepidus Paullus and wife Cornelia Lentula; and Munatia Plancina (ca 35 BC - aft. 20), wife of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso.
In the book he talks about the travels by Jesuit father Antonio Possevino (born 1534, Ferrara, Italy; died February 26, 1611) acting as papal legate circa 1580.
In 1920, he published a memorandum endeavouring to justify his position during the war, and he followed it up with disclosures regarding the attitude of the Vatican in 1917 and the mission of the papal legate in Munich, Pacelli, to Berlin.
Vir militaris, a Roman legate that governed a consular military province of the Roman Empire
Nevertheless, Pompey's sons Gnaeus Pompeius and Sextus Pompeius, together with Titus Labienus, Caesar's former propraetorian legate (legatus propraetore) and second in command in the Gallic War, escaped to Hispania.
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Titus Labienus was Caesar's most senior legate during his Gallic campaigns, having the status of propraetor.
:For the 15th-century papal legate, see Onofrio de Santa Croce.
They sent Oto de Bonovillano as a legate to the Emperor who was at Baeza.
In the Dominium mundi conflict between emperor and pope culminating at the 1157 Reichstag of Besançon (Bisanz), fiery Otto could only be kept from smiting the papal legate Cardinal Rolando Bandinelli by the personal intervention of Frederick.
He sent a papal legate to a synod of bishops convoked by Conrad at Altheim in 916, with the result that the synod ordered Conrad’s opponents to present themselves before Pope John at Rome if they did not appear before another synod for judgement, under pain of excommunication.
The Pope then sent a legate with instructions to call a council of French and German bishops at Mousson, where only the German bishops appeared, the French being stopped on the way by Hugh Capet and his son Robert.
In 1488, Pope Innocent VIII sent Cardinal Riario as a legate to his maternal uncle Girolamo Riario, at the time governor of Forlì and Imola, who was revolting against the Holy See.
Campanus, a witty poet of the papal court, who was sent as legate to the Diet of Regensburg by Pope Paul II, and afterwards was made a bishop by Pope Pius II, abused Germany for its dirt, cold climate, poverty, sour wine and miserable fare.
In 1581 the lands and title of Santry were awarded to William Nugent who then lost it after falling out of favour with the Legate Kane because of his onjection to Kane's policy of immortality .
In 1279 in Buda (Hungary) Pope’s legate, bishop Philip confirmed the abbot’s right to take a special tax (a tithe) from Czudec and Strzyżów.
This monastery was set up under the initiative of Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, once a papal legate to England and France.
Herbert de Losinga was appointed a papal legate in 1093 by Pope Urban II to investigate the matter of Thomas' profession of obedience to Lanfranc.
Also in 493, Lartius served as legate to the consul Cominius, his colleague in 501, at the siege of Corioli, where Gaius Marcius Coriolanus gained fame through his valor.
The papal legate, cardinal Bonifazio Bevilacqua (1571–1627), who had commissioned these paintings, was so pleased that he invested Ventura Salimbeni with the Order of the Golden Spur, a very selective papal order.