[8] Forced to flee Rome because of the violence of the Frangipani and the approach of the army of the Emperor Henry V, Gelasius took refuge in Gaeta, where he was consecrated a bishop and enthroned by three cardinal-bishops, Lamberto of Ostia, Pietro of Porto, and Vitalis of Albano.
[13] From Auxerre, he and the papal court proceeded to Valence (27 February 1120), Gap (11 March), Pisa (14 May), and Volterra (21 May).
[15] Honorius II died in Rome in the monastery of S. Gregory on the Clivus Scauri, near the Colosseum, on 13 February 1130, after a protracted illness.
When Honorius died, late in the afternoon of 13 February, the cardinals gathered around him did not set their plan into motion.
Neither did they inform the magistrates of the city of Rome, who only learned of the fact when they assembled after dawn at the church of S. Marco to pay a collective call on the pope.
[23] After nightfall, the body of the dead pope was buried in the cloister of S. Gregorio and S. Andrea, by several laymen, without a funeral service.
[24] Cardinal Petrus Senex, the senior cardinal-bishop, stated firmly, "No mention can be made about a successor until the pope has been buried.
Cardinal Petrus of S. Susanna was present, but had a tart rebuke for the cardinals on that matter: "They gathered themselves together at some altar in the darkness, and, wishing to claim the title to an evil deed, they fabricated for themselves the deacon of S. Angelo as an idol in their rash boldness of zeal.
[27] Nonetheless, he supported the election of Pope Anacletus II on the morning of 14 February 1130, and subscribed his electoral decree.
[33] On 11 April 1139, he was one of five cardinals who subscribed Innocent II's confirmation of the property of the monastery of Prufenigen, diocese of Ratisbon.