Editing Pandulf Verraccio (section)

== Loyalty to King John ==
Pandulf repaid this act of humility by using every means to avert the [[First Barons' War|threatened French invasion of England]]. For nearly a year he was superseded by the cardinal-legate [[Niccolò de Romanis|Nicholas of Tusculum]]; but returning in 1215 was present at the conference of [[Runnymede]], when the [[Magna Carta]] was sealed. He rendered valuable aid to John who rewarded him{{citation needed|date=December 2010}} with the [[see of Norwich, England]] in 1215, however he was not consecrated for a number of years.<ref name=Handbook261>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 261</ref><ref name=BHONorwich>[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33866 British History Online Bishops of Norwich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214055809/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33866 |date=14 February 2012 }} accessed on 29 October 2007</ref> The arrival of the cardinal-legate [[Cardinal Gualo|Gualo]] in 1216 relegated Pandulf to a secondary position; but after Gualo's departure in 1218 he came forward once more,<ref name=EB1911/> after having been appointed papal legate again on 1 September 1218.<ref name=BHONorwich/>