INNOCENT II  . (Gregorio Paparesci dei Guidoni), pope from 1130 to 1143, was originally a Benedictine monk . His ability, pure life and political connexions raised him rapidly to power . Made cardinal deacon of Sant Angelo in Pescheria by Paschal II. he was employed in various diplomatic missions . Calixtus II. appointed him one of the ambassadors who made peace with the Empire and drew up the Concordat of Worms (1122), and in the following year, with his later enemy Cardinal Peter Pierleoni, he was papal legate in France . On the 13th of February 1130 Honorius II. died, and on that night a minority of the Sacred College elected Paparesci, who took the name of Innocent-H . After a hasty consecration he was forced to take refuge with a friendly noble by the faction of Pierleoni, who was elected pope under the name of Anacletus II. by a majority of the cardinals . Declaring that the cardinals had been intimidated, Innocent refused to recognize their choice; by June, however, he was obliged to flee to France . Here his title was recognized by a synod called by Bernard of Clairvaux at Etampes . Similar action was taken in Germany by the synod of Wurzburg .