John of Châtillon (died 6 July 1298) was a

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of the

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and a

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of theology at the

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. John was a canon at the convent of by 1288, when he attended the inventorying of the convent's library. He incepted as a

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at Paris under either Gregory of Burgundy or Laurence of Poulangy. He succeeded the latter in his order's chair at Paris when Laurence became prior of Verbiesles in 1297. That year, he served as executor for Thierry de Saint-Véran, archdeacon of

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. He died the next year and was succeeded by

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. The general chapter of Val des Écoliers held in 1299 ordered the celebration of his anniversary. John has been identified with the anonymous master of Val des Écoliers (''Magister de Valle Scholarium'') who took part in a ''

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'' from which two questions are preserved in the collection of

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. dates the ''quodlibet'' to 1294–1295. Both the identification and the dating are uncertain. The ''quodlibet'' may belong to Laurence of Poulangy. John of Châtillon of Val des Écoliers is a different person from the Dominican of the same name ( 1267–1281) who was provincial master of France and from the

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of the same name known from two sermons dated 1272–1273.

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