Walter of Winterburn (13th century – 26 August 1305) was an
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Dominican,
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, orator,
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,
philosopher
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, and
theologian
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.
He entered the
Dominican Order
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when a youth, and became renowned for learning, prudence, and sanctity of life.
Edward I, King of England
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, chose him as his
confessor
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.
In 1305, after having taken part in the election of
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, Walter set out from
Perugia
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with several other cardinals to join the pope in
France
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, but at
Genoa
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he was seized with his last illness, during which he was attended by the
dean of the Sacred College
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,
Nicholas de Prato
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. His remains were first buried in the church of his order at Genoa, but were later transferred to
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, as he had ordered, and interred in the convent to which he had formerly been assigned.
Nicholas Trivet
Nicholas Trivet (or Trevet, as he himself wrote) (c. 1258 – c. 1328) was an English Anglo-Norman chronicler.
Life
Trivet was born in Somerset and was the son of Sir Thomas Trevet (died 1283), a judge who came of a Norfolk or Somerset family. ...
, an English Anglo-Norman chronicler who was a close friend, wrote that Walter of Winterburn was a man endowed with many superior qualities, natural and supernatural. According to Trivet, he was thoroughly versed in knowledge, graced with rare modesty and a kindly disposition—a model of religious piety and of mature erudition who despite numerous duties in the cloister and at the imperial Court never shortened his hours of prayer.
He left several works on philosophy and theology, chief among them:
*''Commentarium in IV sententiarum libros''
*''Quaestiones theologicae'', much in use at that time
*''Sermones ad clerum et coram rege habiti''
References
*
his article is by Charles J. Callan, not (as indicated) by Charles Herbermann.
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1305 deaths
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