Pelagio Galvani (b. ca. 1165, Gusendos, León — d. January 30, 1230, Montecassino) was a Leonese Cardinal, and canon lawyer. He became a papal legate and leader of the Fifth Crusade. His early live is little known. It is repeatedely claimed that he entered the Order of Benedictines but this is not proven. Pope Innocent III created him Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lucia in Septisolio around 1206. Later, he was promoted to the rank of Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia (probably on April 2, 1211), and finally opted for the suburbicarian see of Albano in the spring of 1213. He subscribed the papal bulls between May 4, 1207 and January 26, 1230. He was sent on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople in 1213. Three years later he was elected Latin Patriarch of Antioch but his election was not ratified by the