Against Warmund's wishes, he travelled to Rome to receive his pallium directly from Pope Honorius II, which no other archbishop from the Latin East had ever done.
[4] William chose to go to Rome in 1128 to receive his pallium because of the opportunity to petition the new pope to restore his authority over Tripoli, Tortosa and Gibelet.
[1] He and Roger were also successful in their secular mission, helping arrange the marriage of Melisende, heiress of Jerusalem, to Count Fulk V of Anjou.
[5][2] Honorius sent a legate, Cardinal Giles of Tusculum, to the east to enforce his new ruling, but Patriarch Bernard of Antioch ignored it.
[4] In 1129, William confirmed the former Greek Orthodox cathedral of Saint Mary in Tyre to the canons of the Holy Sepulchre, which had acquired it before he became archbishop.