Johannes Lopez (Lupus de Segovia)

Biography



• Born in Segovia.
• Studied and taught in Salamanca.
• Dean of the Chapter of Segovia.
• Protonotarius apostolicus in Rome.
• Imprisoned in the Castel Sant’Angelo.
• Vicar of Cardinal Franz Piccolomini (Bishop of Siena).
• Died 1496 in Rome.

Activities as Canonist

• De matrimonio et legitimatione
• De libertate ecclesiastica
• De confoederatione Principium
• De bello et bellatoribus
• De haeresi et haereticorum reconciliatione eorumque pertinacium damnatione

Editions and Sources

• De libertate ecclesiastica, Schott, Argentine 1511.
• Tractatus de matrimonio et legitimatione, Christophorus de Canibus, Pavia 1488.
• Tractatus dialogicus de confoederatione principium…, Haga Comitum 1626.
• Quaestiones, Heinrich von Haarlem, Siena 1490/95.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• Allegretti, Vico: Il diritto di Guerra nel XV secolo: il Tractatus de bello et bellatoribus di Juan López (+1496), Ufficio Storico SME, Roma 2003.
• see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• see Legal History Sources.
• 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.335-336.