A member of the noble family of Aquila which owned the castle of Sinizzo, the Cistercian Niccolò had been abbot of the monastery of Ss. Vincenzo e Anastasio (at Tre Fontane). He had been secretary of popes Urban IV and Alexander IV. He was appointed bishop of Aquila by Pope Clement IV on 31 December 1267. He brought the Hermits of the Order of S. Augustine to Aquila. On 6 October 1287, he granted the followers of Peter da Morrone exemption from episcopal jurisdiction of their new oratory or church in honor of the Virgin Mary in the territory of the city of Aquila. In 1292, he allowed the Cistercians of Castelnuovo to build a monastery and the church of S. Maria Nuova. Signorini II, pp. 9-14. Eubel I, p. 98. Ernest Langlois, Registres de Nicolas IV, (Paris: Fontemoing 1905), Vol. I, Year 3, p. 615, no. 4217. Édouard Jordan, Les Registres de Clément IV fasc. 1 (Paris: Thorin 1894), p. 184, no. 548.
Bartolomeo was a native of Manoppello, a castle in the diocese of Chieti. He was elected by the Chapter and clergy of Aquila, and approved on 7 August 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII. He was already a priest, and was given the privilege by the pope of being consecrated at Aquila by any bishop he chose. He died at the Council of Vienne in May 1312. Signorini II, pp. 16-18. Georges Digard, Les registres de Boniface VIII Vol. 3, Year 9 (Paris: Fointemoing 1907), p. 807, nos. 5305 and 5306.
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Luigi Serra, Aquila monumentale,(in Italian), (Aquila: Unione arti grafiche, 1912), p. 14.
G.M. Monti (2006), "La fondazione di Aquila, ed il relativo diploma," in: Maria Rita Berardi (ed.), Civiltà medioevale negli Abruzzi. Le testimonianze (L'Aquila 1992), pp. 265-286. A. Casalboni (2014), "La fondazione...," p. 67. The full Latin text and an Italian translation has been published by Beatrice Sabatini (2017), Locus qui dicitur Aquila Lulu.com, Nov 29, 2017, pp. 82-100. [self-published source]
Carlo Franchi (1764), Risposta alla scrittura da un giovane autore formata per li castelli dell'abolito contado della città dell'Aquila in difesa della medesima fedelissima città,(in Italian), (Naples 1764), p. lxxxiii.
Peter Herde, "CELESTINO V, papa,"(in Italian), in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 23 (1979), § 20-22.
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Christus Dominus 40. Therefore, in order to accomplish these aims this sacred synod decrees as follows: 1) The boundaries of ecclesiastical provinces are to be submitted to an early review and the rights and privileges of metropolitans are to be defined by new and suitable norms. 2) As a general rule all dioceses and other territorial divisions that are by law equivalent to dioceses should be attached to an ecclesiastical province. Therefore dioceses which are now directly subject to the Apostolic See and which are not united to any other are either to be brought together to form a new ecclesiastical province, if that be possible, or else attached to that province which is nearer or more convenient. They are to be made subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the bishop, in keeping with the norms of the common law. 3) Wherever advantageous, ecclesiastical provinces should be grouped into ecclesiastical regions for the structure of which juridical provision is to be made.
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Casalboni (2014), "La fondazione...," pp. 68-70; 71: "Il primo vescovo aquilano, Berardo da Padula, trasferitosi insieme alla diocesi nel 1257, torna a Forcona, dove sarà seppellito nel 1264." "Aquila (city)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 249.
