William of Notingham
WILLIAM OF NOTINGHAM
Franciscan theologian; d. Oct. 5, 1336. A student at Oxford by 1290, he lectured on the Sentences (Gonv. and Caius, Cambr. MS 3:00) c. 1310. He became the 39th lector in the Oxford friary c. 1312–14. As an enthusiastic Biblical scholar, he, and not his 13th-century namesake as commonly thought, wrote the well-known commentary on the Concordia evangelistarum of Clement of Lanthony. He was 17th minister provincial of England from Sept. 8, 1316, until c. 1330. At the general chapter of Perugia, 1322, he added his name to the letter of protest against the decrees of john xxii concerning evangelical poverty; he also attended the general chapter of Lyons, 1325. He was buried at Leicester.
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[j. a. weisheipl]