Editing Pope Adrian IV (section)

===Voyage to Catalonia===
It was probably at the Council of Reims that Eugenius selected Breakspear for a mission to Catalonia,{{sfn|Smith|2003|p=33}}{{refn|The scholar Damian Smith notes a pre-existing connection between Breakspear and the region through his predecessor at St Ruf, [[Olegarius]], abbot between 1113 and 1118,{{sfn|McCrank|1978|pp=162, nn.15+17}} and who had then been unwillingly promoted to the [[Bishopric of Barcelona]] and subsequently the [[Archbishopric of Tarragona]]. He also became an important advisor to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona.{{sfn|Smith|2003|p=33}}|group=note}} possibly as a kind of unofficial legate to the crusaders.{{sfn|Constable|1953|p=25}} Breakspear met [[Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona]] who had been waging the latest campaign against the Moors since 1147. Although no records exist to show Breakspear was involved in the campaign itself, he was heavily involved in the reorganisation and administration of the [[Cistercian Order]], as well as arbitrating disputes within its congregation.{{sfn|Smith|2003|p=35}} It is likely that he was present at the [[Siege of Lleida (1149)|Siege of Lleida]] during the summer of 1149. He is less likely to have still been there in October, when it fell, as he had returned to Rome by December. However, he may well have brought news of another successful siege—[[Siege of Tortosa (1148)|that of Tortosa]]—which would have been particularly welcome to the "bruised and battered" papacy of Eugenius, says Damian Smith.{{sfn|Smith|2003|p=36}} Smith also notes that Breakspear's lengthy absence from St Ruf may have been a source of complaint by his monks, "but this was surely not of prime importance to the Pope".{{sfn|Smith|2003|p=36}} Egger suggests, however, that Breakspear's Catalonian mission was of great benefit to St Ruf, which became the blueprint for the religious houses created by Berenguer in the wake of the retreating Muslim empire.{{sfn|Egger|2003|p=25}}{{refn|St Ruf's observances, suggests Egger, became popular with the Catalonian nobility as well as the church, so was "of no small advantage to the order".{{sfn|Egger|2003|p=25}}|group=note}}

Around mid-1152, he was despatched to [[Scandinavia]] as [[Papal legate]].{{sfn|Sayers|2004}}