Alvarus Pelagius (Paez, Pelayo)

Biography

• called Alvarus Paez and studied under Guido de Baysio in Bologna. 
• Decretorum Doctor.
• 1301: taught in Bologna. 
• 1304: renounced his benefice and joined the spiritualist wing of the Franciscans.
• Defendor of the Papacy against Louis of Bavaria. 
• Advisor of John XXII. 
• 1333: Bishop of Silves. 
• 1349: Death.

Activities as Canonist

• De statu et planctu ecclesiae libri duo
• Speculum regum
• De vita christiania
• Quaestiones

Editions and Sources

• De statu et planctu ecclesiae libri duo, Ulm 26.10.1474.
• Espelho dos reis, Vol. 1, Frei Álvaro Pais. Estabelecimento do texto e tradução do Miguel Pinto de Meneses, Instituto de alta cultura, Lisboa 1955.
• Espelho dos reis, Vol. 2, Frei Álvaro Pais. Estabelecimento do texto e tradução do Miguel Pinto de Meneses, Instituto de alta cultura, Lisboa 1963.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• BAYLAENDER, Heinrich: Alvaro Pelayo: Studien zu seinem Leben und seinen Schriften. Ein Beitrag zur kirchenpolitischen Traktaten-Literatur des XIV. Jahrhunderts, Götz, Aschaffenburg 1910. 
• COSTA, Ricardo de: O Espelho de Reis de rei Álvaro Pais (c.1275-1349) e seu conceito de tirania, in: MALEVAL, Maria do Amparo Tavares (ed.): Ata do III Encontro Internacional de Estudos Medievais, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Ágora da Ilha, 2001, p.338-334.
• see entry at: Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• JUNG, Nicolas: Un franciscain, théologien du pouvoir pontifical au XIVe siècle: Alvaro Pelayo évéque et pénitencier de Jean XXII, Vrin, Paris 1931
• SCHRICK, Gerhard: Der Königsspiegel des Alvaro Pelayo (Speculum regum), Univ. Diss. Bonn 1953. 
• 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, pp.202.
• See Wikipedia-entry.