Zenzelinus de Cassanis 

(Gaucellinus, Jesselinus)

Biography

• also called: Gaucellinus, Gencellinus, Genzelinus, Genselinus, Jesselinus.
• Born around 1300 in France.
• Professor in Montpellier.
• 1317: Assessor of the Consul.
• Chaplain of Cardinal Arnaud de Via.
• 1323: mentioned as Papal chaplain.
• 1325-1335: Mentioned as executor of papal letters.
• 1326 Member of the Rota.
• Death: Probably 1350.

Activities as Canonist

• Lectura super VI. Decretalium.
• Apparatus super Clementinis.
• Apparatus ad Extravagantes Johannis XXII.

Editions and Sources

• Extravagentes XX Jo[a]nnis XXII, Kerver ac Petit et Cabiller, Paris 1513.
• Lectura super VI. Decretalium, Venetiis 1490.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see entry at: Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• 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.199-200.