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Tancredus

(Bononiensis) 


Biography


 

  • Born around 1185 in Bologna.
  • Not to be confused with another Tancred, who was a Dominican Friar, even if he might have been member of the Order himself (?)
  • Studied under Johannes Galensis and Laurentius Hispanus, Roman Law under Azo.
  • Around 1214: Magister decretorum
  • Stopped teaching but resumed after the death of Innocent III.
  • 1215 or 1216: Canon in Bologna
  • 1226: Archdeacon in Bologna
  • Lead the investigation concerning the canonisation of St. Dominic.



Activities as Canonist



  • One of the most influential Canonists of the 13th century.
  • Summa de sponsalibus et matrimonio
  • Ordo judiciarius
  • Apparatus ad Compilationem I, II, III., where seen as Glossa ordinaria until the Gregorian collection.
  • Provinciale



Editions and Sources



  • TANCREDUS, Bononiensis: Tancredi summa de matrimonio, ed. Agathon Wunderlich, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1841.
  • TANCREDUS: Pillii, Tancredi, Gratiae Libri De Judiciorum Ordine, ed. Fridericus Bergmann, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1842,
  • TANCREDUS: Summula de criminibus, ed. Fraher Richard: Tancred’s ‚Summula de criminibus’. A new text and a key to the ‘Ordo iudiciarius’, in: Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, Vol. 9/ 1979, p.29-35.
  • TANCREDUS, Bononiensis: Summa quaestionum compendiosa, Heinrich von Köln, Urbino 1493.



Introductory Secondary Literature