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John Whitehead (
fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1389–1415) was an Irish theologian. A native of Ireland, Whitehead studied at Oxford where in 1408 he is referred to as a
Doctor of Theology Doctor of Theology ( la, Doctor Theologiae, abbreviated DTh, ThD, DTheol, or Dr. theol.) is a terminal degree in the academic discipline of theology. The ThD, like the ecclesiastical Doctor of Sacred Theology, is an advanced research degree equiva ...
. Up to 1415 he was rector of Stabannan,
County Louth County Louth ( ; ga, An Lú) is a coastal county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. Louth is bordered by the counties of Meath to the south, Monaghan to the west, Armagh to the north and Down to the ...
. Like Henry Crumpe and Richard FitzRalph he was involved in sermonical attacks upon the Franciscan friars. He attended the 1409 Council of Pisa as
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of the
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Fleming of
Armagh Armagh ( ; ga, Ard Mhacha, , "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Pri ...
. His works include: *''Determinacio in materia de mendicitate/Assessment in the matter of mendicant poverty'' *''Determinacio de confessione et absolucione/Assessment concerning confession and absolution''


See also

* Thomas de Hibernia *
Master Patrick of Ireland Master Patrick of Ireland, Irish writer, fl.14th century? Author of 'Sophisma determinatum', which exists only in two 14th-century copies, one at the Bavarian State Library, Munich, the second at the University Library, Basel , french: link= ...
*
John Clyn John Clyn, O.F.M. (c. 1286 – c. 1349), of the Friars Minor, Kilkenny, was a 14th-century Irish friar and chronicler who lived at the time of the Black Death. Background Clyn was probably born in Leinster some years prior to 1300, possibly at ...


Sources

*''A New History of Ireland'', volume one. {{DEFAULTSORT:Whitehead, John Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford Irish writers in Latin Irish Roman Catholic theologians 14th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests 15th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests People from County Louth 14th-century births 15th-century deaths 14th-century Roman Catholic theologians 15th-century Roman Catholic theologians 15th-century Irish writers 15th-century writers in Latin