Durandus of Mende

Biography

• Born around 1230 in Puymisson (France).
• Studied in Lyon and Bologna.
• Taught in Modena.
• 1262: Papal service.
• 1285: Bishop of Mende.
• Death: 1.11.1296 in Rome.

Activities as Canonist

• Speculum iudiciale: Importance for procedural law
• Speculum legatorum
• Breviarium sive Repertorium
• Commentary on the Decretals of Gregory X.
• Apparatus to the Constitutions of Nicolaus II.
• Rationale divinorum officiorum
• Pontificale

Editions and Sources

• DURANTIS, Guilelmus: Speculum iudiciale, Vol. 1, Lugdunum 1544.
• DURANTIS, Guilelmus: Speculum iudiciale, Vol. 2, Lugdunum 1544; available as copie via EOD.
• DURANTIS, Guilelmus: Speculum iudiciale, Vol. 3, Lugdunum 1544.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• For further information see: Durantis, Guilelmus, Mende, Bischof, Index entry in: Deutsche Biographie.
• Gy, Pierre-Marie: Guillaume Durand 'Evêque de Mende (v. 1230 - 1296), canoniste, liturgiste et homme politique; actes de la table ronde du C.N.R.S., Mende 24 - 27 mai 1990, Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1992.
• HAERING, Stephan: Durandus v.Mende, 1.) Wilhelm d.Ä., in: KASPER, Walter (ed.): Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, Vol.3, Dämon-Fragmentenstreit, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2009, p.411.
• 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, p.144-156.