Bernard degli Uberti

Bernardo degli Uberti (c. 1060 – 4 December 1133) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who was a professed member and served as an abbot of the Vallumbrosan Order.

Uberti served as a papal legate for successive popes in several Italian regions in their disputes with secular rulers and was a close confidant and advisor to the Countess Matilda.

This led to Pope Innocent II naming Uberti a saint only six years after his death, on 3 December 1139.

He worked at the Lateran until 1101 when he was appointed papal legate to Lombardy and began to serve as an advisor to Countess Matilda.

On 15 August 1104, he was in Parma in an attempt to keep the people faithful to the pope in his struggle against Emperor Heinrich V and the Antipope Maginulf.

In September 1104 he served as an advisor to the countess in both Cosogno and Modena while on 20 March 1105, he was in the Lateran Palace to sign a papal bull for the pope.

Uberti tried to return to Parma in August 1105 to recruit troopers for the pope in his struggle against the German king but this venture proved unsuccessful.