 Complaints to the papacy were of sufficient gravity that Pope Innocent III appointed a committee of Apostolic Visitors.Bishop Oberto of Albenga was accused of employing the use of the red-hot iron as a method of purging an accused person of the guilt of his crime, and over the strong objections of the people.Oberto was suspended from episcopal authority by the Visitors, and ordered to present himself at the Papal Court to explain his conduct, which he never did.