ODO RIGALDUS

Theologian; b. near Paris (date unknown); d. Rouen, July 2, 1275. He joined the Franciscan Order c. 1236, and studied at the University of Paris from 1240–41 to 1245; in this latter year on the death of John de la Rochelle he succeeded him as regent. Rigaldus commented on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and on at least 15 disputed theological questions. Only Books 1, 2, and 3 of the Commentary are authentic, Bruxelles Bibl. Roy. 1542 and Troyes Bibl. Comm. 1862 being spurious. As a student of theology he had collaborated with Alexander of Hales, John de la Rochelle, and Robert de la Basée on an exposition of the Franciscan Rule, which has become known as the Expositio Regulae Quatuor Magistrorum. His other writings remain substantially unedited.

Upon his election to the See of Rouen he was consecrated by Innocent IV at Lyons, April 26, 1248. He was a favorite of Louis, King of France, and was a collaborator on the Treaty with England in 1258. He worked actively with Bonaventure at the Council of Lyons (1274) for the return of the Greeks. An important document, the Regestrum visitationum, gives an account of his episcopal activity as metropolitan from July 17, 1248, to Dec. 15, 1269. His intellectual stature has become recognized recently as modern theologians rank him among the superior minds of the mid-13th century.

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