Johannes de Turrecremata

(Johannes von Brandenturm)

 

Biography

 

• born in Burgos, Valladolid or Torquemada.
• joined the Order of Preachers.
• studied Theology and Canon Law in Paris.
• Magister S. Palatii.
• Participation at the Council of Basil.
• 18^th December 1439: Cardinalate.
• Bishop of Albano.
• Bishop of Sabina.
• Death: 26^th September 1468 in Rome.

 

Activities as Canonist

 

• Commentary on the Decretum
• Systematic work on the Decretum

 

Editions and Sources

 

• Tractatus de Aqua Benedicta, Augsburg.
• Johannis de Turrecremata responsio ad decretum synodale de potestate concilii et pontificis - BSB Clm 834, 1439.
• Summae de ecclesiae partes, Venetia 1561.

 

Introductory Secondary Literature

 

see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.

see Deutsche Biographie.

SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich von: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts. Von Papst Gregor IX. bis zum Concil von Trient, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1877, pp.322-327.