Jacobus de Albenga

Biography

• Provost in Albenga.
• taught in Bologna.
• Teacher of Cardinal Henricus de Segusia (Hostiensis) and Petrus de Sampsona.
• 1258: Bishop of Faenza
• Death: 1274

Activities as Canonist

• Appears quite early in his life as an advocate (1210) according to Andreae.
• Glossator of the Compilatio quinta
• Wrote Additiones to Tancred’s Glosse on the Compilatio Prima and some on the Compilatio quarta.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• See entry at Alcuin.
• See entry at Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts. Von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, Vol. 1, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1875, pp. 205-207.