§ 9

.  Great also was he in dignity in the Roman Church. For growing strong in the fame of his innocence, doctrine and prudence, by Pope Gregory X, Our predecessor of happy memory, he was called to the honor of the Cardinalate, so that he might employ his works in the greatest and most difficult things which were happening in those times, regarding whom Gregory himself employed a new example on account of the vast merits of the man. For immediately he entrusted to him the Church of Alba, which was not accustomed to be committed to any but older cardinals.