Editing Pope Gelasius II (section)

===Early life===
[[File:Campitelli - san Sebastiano al Palatino - memorie 01623.JPG|thumb|Plaque in [[San Sebastiano al Palatino]] marking the election of Caetani as Pope Gelasius II.]]

He was born between 1060 and 1064 at [[Gaeta]] into the [[Pisa]]n branch of the [[Caetani]] family, and he became a monk of [[Monte Cassino]].<ref name=EB1911/> [[Pope Urban II]], who wished to improve the style of papal documents, brought him to Rome and made Caetani a papal [[subdeacon]] (August 1088) and [[cardinal deacon]] of [[Santa Maria in Cosmedin]] (probably on 23 September 1088). As [[chancellor of the Holy Roman Church]] from 1089 to 1118, he drastically reformed the papal administration, establishing a permanent staff of clerks for the papacy, overcoming the previous custom of relying on Roman notaries to write papal documents, and introducing the minuscule curial script. His tenure also established the precedent of the papal chancellor always being a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] and holding the office for life or until elected pope.{{cn|date=January 2021}}