Sicard of Cremona

Florian Hartmann in The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (2010:1357) provided the following about Sicard of Cremona:

Sicard of Cremona
[Sicardus episcopus Cremonensis]

ca 1155-1215. Italy. Bishop, theologian and author of the Cremonensis Chronica (Chronicles of Cremona) and of a Summa decretorum (A digest of decrees). He studied canon law at Bologna. In 1183, he was appointed sub deacon and in 1185 bishop of his home town Cremona. In 1183, Pope Lucius III sent him to Germany to prepare the meeting with the emperor Frederick in Verona. His Chronicon Cremonense runs from Adam to 1212, with a continuation to 1222. Its diverse sources include Bede, Orosius, and, extensively, Giovanni, and Codagnello's Gesta Frederici. The part dedicated to the recent history of Cremona is quite short in comparison to the contemporary histories in the Italian communes. Sicard never mentions the existence of communal government at all. His old-fashioned perspective on the political world sees the bishop ruling the city and the city submitting to the emperor. Only the continuation shows a communal spirit of the town chronicles of the period. The earliest of the 8 surviving manuscripts is the 13th-century Munich, BSB, clm. 314.

Wikipedia adds the following concerning his involvement with the Crusades:

Sicard and the people [of Cremona] also built a transport ship, intended to carry supplies to the troops fighting in the Holy Land ( Holder-Egger, 1903:169).

... In 1203 he followed the papal legate Cardinal Peter of Capua to the East during the Fourth Crusade. As they were returning in 1204, by way of Constantinople, to make a report on operations in the east, Sicardus conducted ordinations in Hagia Sophia on the legate's invitation, on 18 December 1204. How long he remained in Constantinople is not known, but the Legate, Cardinal Peter, received an angry letter from Pope Innocent III, dated 17 February 1205, berating him for leaving his post in the Holy Land ( Holder-Egger, 1903:43).

Sicardus had certainly returned to Cremona by 16 December 1205