Joannes Anagninus
Joannes Anagninus (Giovanni dei Conti di Anagni) (died 1196) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[4] Pope Adrian died on 1 September 1159,[5] and the election of his successor produced a schism between the canonically elected Cardinal Rolando Bandinelli, the papal chancellor, who became Pope Alexander III on 7 September, and the minority candidate of the imperialist faction, Cardinal Ottaviano de'Monticelli, who took the name Victor IV.[13] In 1164, probably, Pope Alexander sent an embassy to the Balkans, headed by Cardinal Giovanni Conti da Anagni of S. Marco, and including the subdeacons, Theodinus and Vitellius.The purpose of their mission, at the emperor's request, was to regularize the status of clerics who had been degraded and deposed by Pope Alexander at the council of Venice in 1177.[16] His latest subscription at the papal court was on 17 November 1182, and he was in Constance on 30 June 1183, where the emperor held a solemn assembly.