Martin of Dacia (Martinus Dacus, Martinus de Dacia, Morten Mogensen, ca. 1240 - August 10, 1304) was a

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scholar and theologian. He authored ''De Modi significandi '' (ca. 1270), an influential treatise on grammar.

Biography

Morten Mogensen was born at

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probably in the late 1240s or early 1250s. Mogensen received his theological doctorate in Paris where he obtained the degree of a

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and Magister theologiae. From the 1290s, he held a

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of the

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in the Ribe diocese as well as Provost of Schleswig and Canon of Lund. In Schleswig, Mogensen established a vicarage in the parish of Sywertmanrip. Mogensen was mentioned in 1288 as royal chancellor of Danish King

Eric VI Menved Eric VI Menved (1274 – 13 November 1319) was King of Denmark (1286–1319). A son of King Eric V and Agnes of Brandenburg, he became king in 1286 at age 12, when his father was murdered on 22 November by unknown assailants. On account of his age ...

(reign 1286 –1319). In the dispute between

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, and King Eric VI Menved, Mogensen arranged a royal rapprochement to Pope

Boniface VIII Pope Boniface VIII ( la, Bonifatius PP. VIII; born Benedetto Caetani, c. 1230 – 11 October 1303) was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 December 1294 to his death in 1303. The Caetani family was of baronial ...

, which in 1302 resulting in a settlement of the dispute. In 1302 he gave a donation to the chapter of Notre Dame in Paris. He founded an altar for the cathedral in Roskilde in 1303. Mogensen died during 1304 in Paris and was buried at Notre Dame.

Name

The rendering of his name, Morten Mogensen, into Medieval Latin as ''Martinus de Dacia'' stems from the fact that, during the Middle Ages, the toponym '' Dania'' meaning Denmark, was occasionally confused with the historic region of ''

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'' in the

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Works

*''Danicorum Medii Aevi'' *''De Modi significandi des Martinus de Dacia'' *''Quaestiones super Artem Veterem''

References

Other sources

* ''Martini de Dacia Opera'' (1961) ed. Heinrich Roos i
''Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi''
(Copenhagen: G. E.C. Gad)

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