Icmar or Imar (died at Cluny on October 28, 1161) was a French cardinal. He entered the Benedictine order of the Congregation of Cluny in the monastery of Saint-Martin des Champes in Paris; for a some time, he was a monk at Cluny. Later, he became abbot of the monastery S. Maria Nuova in the diocese of Poitiers. He was a friend of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who mentioned him in his letters. He was created Cardinal-Bishop of Tusculum (Frascati) by Pope Innocent II in the consistory celebrated in 1142 and received the episcopal consecration from that pope in the Lateran Basilica in March of that year. He participated in the papal elections of September 1143, March 1144, July 1153 and December 1154, and subscribed the papal bulls issued between April 19, 1142 and February 18, 1159. He served a
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| - Icmar or Imar (died at Cluny on October 28, 1161) was a French cardinal. He entered the Benedictine order of the Congregation of Cluny in the monastery of Saint-Martin des Champes in Paris; for a some time, he was a monk at Cluny. Later, he became abbot of the monastery S. Maria Nuova in the diocese of Poitiers. He was a friend of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who mentioned him in his letters. He was created Cardinal-Bishop of Tusculum (Frascati) by Pope Innocent II in the consistory celebrated in 1142 and received the episcopal consecration from that pope in the Lateran Basilica in March of that year. He participated in the papal elections of September 1143, March 1144, July 1153 and December 1154, and subscribed the papal bulls issued between April 19, 1142 and February 18, 1159. He served a
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| - Icmar or Imar (died at Cluny on October 28, 1161) was a French cardinal. He entered the Benedictine order of the Congregation of Cluny in the monastery of Saint-Martin des Champes in Paris; for a some time, he was a monk at Cluny. Later, he became abbot of the monastery S. Maria Nuova in the diocese of Poitiers. He was a friend of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who mentioned him in his letters. He was created Cardinal-Bishop of Tusculum (Frascati) by Pope Innocent II in the consistory celebrated in 1142 and received the episcopal consecration from that pope in the Lateran Basilica in March of that year. He participated in the papal elections of September 1143, March 1144, July 1153 and December 1154, and subscribed the papal bulls issued between April 19, 1142 and February 18, 1159. He served as papal legate in England in the pontificate of Pope Lucius II (1144–1145). He became Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals in 1153. After the double papal election, 1159 he joined the obedience of Antipope Victor IV and consecrated him to the episcopate in the abbey of Farfa on October 4, 1159 with the assistance of the bishops Ubaldo of Ferentino and Riccardo of Melfi. He was deposed by the legitimate Pope Alexander III. He participated in the schismatic Council of Pavia in February 1160, which anathematized Alexander III. Then he retired to the abbey of Cluny and died there. Spanish historian Alphonso Ciacconio (c.1540–1599) in his opuscle Vitae et res gestae Pontificum Romanorum et S. R. E. Cardinalium mentions him among participants of the election of Antipope Paschal III (successor of Victor IV) in April 1164, but this is unlikely because up to that time he had been replaced in his suburbicarian see..
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