Richard Wilton (died 21 December 1239) was an English scholastic philosopher.
Works
His works included:
*a commentary on the ''
Sentences
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'' of
Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard (also Peter the Lombard, Pierre Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; 1096, Novara – 21/22 July 1160, Paris), was a scholastic theologian, Bishop of Paris, and author of '' Four Books of Sentences'' which became the standard textbook of ...
;
*a treatise in five books against the heresies of his own age;
*commentaries on the ''
Book of Genesis
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'' and the prophecies of
Jeremiah
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;
*three books of ''
quodlibet
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s'';
*a treatise on the
immortality of the soul
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;
*four books on
Divine grace.
Life
Little is known for certain, except that he was an Englishman, who joined the
Trinitarians
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.
Claims of
Oldoinus in his ''Athenaeum Romanum'', published at Perugia in 1676, have later been controverted:
*The claim that he was nominated
Archbishop of Armagh by
Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III ( la, Innocentius III; 1160 or 1161 – 16 July 1216), born Lotario dei Conti di Segni (anglicized as Lothar of Segni), was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1198 to his death in 16 ...
; he certainly never became archbishop.
*He is said to have been created cardinal by
Pope Gregory IX
Pope Gregory IX ( la, Gregorius IX; born Ugolino di Conti; c. 1145 or before 1170 – 22 August 1241) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 March 1227 until his death in 1241. He is known for issuing the '' Decre ...
with the title of
St. Stephen on the Caelian Hill; his name is not found in the lists of cardinals compiled by
de Mas Latrie, or the researches of
Conrad Eubel.
*That he was a doctor of Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris is intrinsically impossible, at least so far as Cambridge is concerned.
References
;Attribution
* The entry cites:
**A. Oldoinius, ''Athenaeum Romanum'' (Perugia, 1676);
**
Jacques Lelong
Jacques Lelong (occasionally Jacobus Longus; 19 April 1665 – 13 August 1721) was a French bibliographer born in Paris. He joined the Knights of Malta at the age of ten, but later joined the Oratorians.
He was a priest of the Oratory, and was l ...
, ''Bibliotheca Sacra'' (Paris, 1723), giving the date of his death as 1439;
**
Johann Albert Fabricius
Johann Albert Fabricius (11 November 1668 – 30 April 1736) was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.
Biography
Fabricius was born at Leipzig, son of Werner Fabricius, director of music in the church of St. Paul at Leipzig, who was the ...
, ''Bib. Med. AEt.'', VI (Hamburg, 1746), giving date of his date as 1339, by an obvious misprint;
**
Hugo von Hurter
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Friedri ...
,
Nomenclator Literarius (Innsbruck, 1899).
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1239 deaths
13th-century English Roman Catholic theologians
Scholastic philosophers
Year of birth unknown