Robertus Flamesburiensis

Biography

• came from England: Flamborough (Yorkshire).
• end of 12^th/Beginning of 13^th century: was Canon at St. Victor in Paris, Penitentiary and teacher.
• studied with Stephen of Tournai.

Activities as Canonist

• Around 1210: Poenitentiale; important for casuistry in the confessional; relies on Huguccio, John of Faenza, Cardinalis.

Editions and Sources

• FIRTH, Francis (ed.): Robertus Flamesburiensis, Robert of Flamborough. Liber poenitentialis. A critical edition with introduction and notes by J.J. Francis Firth C.S.B., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1971.
• SCHULTE, Johann (ed.): Roberti Flamesburiensis, Canonici et Poenitentiarii S. Victoris Parisiensis, summa de matrimonio et De usuris, ex Roberti Poenitentiali ed. Joh. Fridericus Schulte, Roth, Gissae 1868.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see entry at Alcuin.
• FIRTH, Francis: The ‘Poenitentiale' of Robert of Flamborough: An Early Handbook for the Confessor in its Manuscript Tradition, Traditio, Vol.16, pp.541-556.
• 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. 208-211.