About the time of Arialdo’s martyrdom, Cremona must have been won over to the cause of the reformers, for in 1066 we find Alexander II. addressing the “religiosis clericis et fidelibus laicis” of that city, thanking God that they had been moved to extirpate the simoniacal and Nicolitan heresies, and commanding that in future all those in orders who contaminated themselves with women should be degraded.—Alex. II. Epist. 36.
[519] Arnulf. Lib. III. c. 18, 19.
[520] Landulf. Sen. Lib. III. c. 20.
[521] Arnulf. Lib. III. c. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.—Landulf. Sen. Lib. III. c. 28.
[522] Arnulf. Lib. III. c. 23; Lib. IV. c. 2, 3, 4.
[523] Arnulf. Lib. IV., Lib. V. c. 2, 5, 9.—Landulf. Sen. Lib. III. c. 29, Lib. IV. c. 2.—Lambert. Schafnab. ann. 1077.
Erlembaldo was canonized by Urban II. towards the end of the century. Muratori (Annal. ann. 1085) styles Tedaldo “capo e colonna maestra degli Scismatici di Lombardia.”
[524] Landulf. Sen. Lib. III. c. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
[525] Gregor. II. Regist. Lib. I. Epistt. 25, 26, 27.
[526] Maritos ab uxoribus separat; scorta pudicis conjugibus; stupra, incestus, adulteria, casto præfert connubio; populares adversus sacerdotes, vulgus adversum episcopos concitat.—Comit. Ticinens. ann. 1076 (Goldast. III. 314).