Augustinus de Ancona

(Triumphus)

Biography

• born 1243 in Ancona.
• studied in Paris (probably under Thomas Aquinas).
• 1297: Participant at the Council of Lyon.
• 1302/1309: Lecturer in Theology in Padua.
• Joined the Augustinian Hermits.
• Death: 1328 in Naples as Archbishop of Nazareth.

Activities as Canonist

• 1314-1316: De potestate collegii mortuo papae
• 1326: Summa de potestate ecclesiastica

Editions and Sources

• Summa de potestate ecclesiastica, Arnold ter Hoernen, 1475.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see Alcuin.
• see: Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• 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.193-195.
• WILKS, Michael: The Problem of Sovereignity in the Later Middle Ages: Papal Monarchy with Augustinus Triumphus and the Publicists, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1963, pp.405.
• WILKS, Michael: Papa est nomen jurisdictionis: Augustinus Trijmpus and the Papal Vicariate of Christ, in: The Journal of Theological Studies, Vol.8/2, p.256-271.