Enrico da Settala
Enrico belonged to a family of capitaneal [it] rank that had relocated from the town of Settala, from which they took their name, to the city of Milan in the course of the 12th century.
[2] Innocent tried to secure Enrico's appointment to the vacant Milanese chancellorship, but Archbishop Filippo da Lampugnano [it] preferred to give that office to a relative of his.
In 1203, Innocent sent Enrico to induce the chapter of Novara into accepting Ariprando Visconti, another papal subdeacon from Milan, as a member.
In 1205, he sent him with the archdeacon Guglielmo da Rizolio to settle a lawsuit involving the priest of San Vittore e Quaranta martiri [it].
On 23 January 1210, Enrico and the archpriest Guglielmo Balbo were charged by Uberto with resolving a lawsuit between the commune of Milan and the abbey of Chiaravalle.
The next leading candidate, Ariprando Visconti, died in September 1213, prompting the chapter to request that Innocent III appoint an archbishop.
The immediate cause of the change was the decision of the Milanese podestà Amizone Sacco to renounce the city's support for Otto IV and adhere to Frederick II.
[2] He led a contingent that included the archbishop of Crete and the bishops of Faenza, Reggio and Brescia with many Italian knights and representatives of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Cardinal Ugolino dei Conti tried at first to mediate before excommunicating Sacco and the two populist factions of Milanese politics, the Motta and the Credenza di Sant'Ambrogio [it].
[2] Enrico became the effective leader of the aristocratic faction, the Credenza dei Nobili, while the poplists were led by Ardigotto Marcellino.
[2] In July 1227, Pope Gregory IX, the former Cardinal Ugolino, ordered Enrico to exempt the Humiliati from swearing oaths except as witnesses in court and a in a few other circumstances.
[12] On 9 October 1229, Gregory requested that Enrico lead an armed force to the assistance of the papal army fighting the emperor in southern Italy.
[13] On 2 December 1229 in the archiepiscopal palace [it] and in the presence of the papal legate Guala de Roniis, Enrico and the commune renewed the accord of five years earlier.
