Guigo de Ponte, also known as Guigues du Pont, was a

Carthusian The Carthusians, also known as the Order of Carthusians ( la, Ordo Cartusiensis), are a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic Church. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. The order has its ...

monk of the

Grande Chartreuse Grande Chartreuse () is the head monastery of the Carthusian religious order. It is located in the Chartreuse Mountains, north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (Isère), France. History Originally, the ch ...

. Little is known about him, but he probably professed there in 1271, and died in 1297. He is known for his treatise ''De vita contemplativa'', also known as ''De Contemplatione''. This has sometimes been attributed to

Guigo I Guigo I also known as Guigues du Chastel, Guigo de Castro and Guigo of Saint-Romain, was a Carthusian monk and the 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse monastery in the 12th century. He was born in 1083 near the Chateau of Saint-Romain, and entered the G ...

(d.1136), the fifth prior of the

. However, it cannot have been written by Guigo I, because it refers to several writings of thirteenth-century scholastic theology, as well as to

Hugh of Balma Hugh of Balma, also known as Hugo of Palma or Hugh of Dorche was a Carthusian theologian, is generally acknowledged to be the author of the work which titled ''Viae Syon Lugent'' (''The Roads to Zion Mourn''), after its opening line. That work is a ...

's ''Viae Syon Lugent''. Part of it (Book II, chapters 1–5) was taken up nearly verbatim by the fourteenth-century Carthusian

Ludolph of Saxony Ludolph of Saxony (c. 1295 – 1378), also known as Ludolphus de Saxonia and Ludolph the Carthusian, was a German Roman Catholic theologian of the fourteenth century. His principal work, first printed in the 1470s, was the ''Vita Christi'' ( ...

(d.1377) in his ''Vita Christi''. One of those who read Ludolph was

Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola, Society of Jesus, S.J. (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; eu, Ignazio Loiolakoa; es, Ignacio de Loyola; la, Ignatius de Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spain, Spanish Catholic ...

, so indirectly, Guigo's thought entered early modern Catholic spiritual writing.''Carthusian spirituality: the writings of Hugh of Balma and Guigo de Ponte'' trans by Dennis D. Martin, (New York: Paulist Press, 1996), p59. Though it was known and used by a number of late medieval Carthusians, though (as well as Ludolph of Saxony it is used by Denis of Rijkel, and possibly Nicholas Kempf), it survives in only five manuscripts, so was clearly not widely read outside these circles.

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