Contemporaneous with the foundation of the university of Toulouse (partly staffed by Paris-trained masters) and anti-heretical preaching, episcopal inquests, and synodal legislation in Narbonne (1227) and Toulouse (1229), the Paris master and cardinal Jean Halgrin d’Abbeville was dispatched to the Iberian peninsula with full legatine powers (1228–30). The spectrum of reactions to Jean's reforming legation mirrored responses to the legatine tour of Jean's former colleague Robert Courson in northern France, Flanders-Brabant and the Midi (1213–15). Both men combined powerful preaching in support of the Albigensian crusade and against heresy with holding reforming inquests, diocesan synods and provincial councils that attempted to entice or force local clergy into conformity with the Paris-based reform program that had influenced the very substance of the Fourth Lateran Council's decrees (1215) Jean was tasked to implement in Iberia: the education of clergy and the laity in the faith; combatting heresy through preaching, confession and inquest; an emphasis on preaching and confession; the differentiation of ecclesiastics from seculars in dress and conduct; curbing absenteeism, pluralism, simony, and clerical concubinage. Despite inevitable criticism and resistance, Jean d’Abbeville found supporters in the curia (including Jacques de Vitry, Honorius III, and Gregory IX) and on the Iberian peninsula, including Jaime I, king of Aragon, Guillem, bishop of Vic, Pedro de Albalat, archbishop of Tarragona, and their associate Raymon de Peñafort, future Dominican master general (1238–41) and writer of tremendously influential works on canon law, penance, and compassionate guidelines for conducting blended episcopal-mendicant inquisitions. Raymon assisted Jean (1228–9) in reforming the very dioceses which would shortly become test-cases for the implementation of royally backed episcopal inquests in Iberia – Barcelona (1241) and Tarragona (1232, 1237, 1242) – before being lured to Rome at a period when important papal letters governing the treatment of heresy were being issued (1230–2). While the Paris-educated Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, archbishop of Toledo, possessed more ambivalent feelings about outside intrusion into Iberian affairs, Rodrigo's sometime associate Lucas of Tuy corresponded with Jacques de Vitry, wrote an anti-heretical treatise, and may have been taken by Jean d’Abbeville to Rome. Pedro de Albalat remained in amicable contact with Jean d’Abbeville and Raymon de Peñafort in the early 1230s; Pedro's provincial council at Tarragona (1242) joined Jean's Parisian reform program to a declaration of a ‘war against heresy’ and planned unannounced episcopal visitations with the assistance of local mendicants.