 After studying with Hugolino of Ostia at the University of Paris, he became dean of the chapter at Amiens in 1218; later he was archbishop of Besançon.He became Cardinal Bishop of Sabina in 1227.He visited Portugal and the extant kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula as papal legate between 1227 and 1229, possibly 30 (H. Fernandes, 2006, pp.