Rodericus Sancius de Arevalo

Biography

• born in S.Maria de Nieva (Diocese of Segovia) in 1404.
• studied Law in Salamanca.
• several offices in different Dioceses.
• 1440: Legate of Emperor Frederick III.
• Bishop of Oviedo.
• Prefect of the Castell San Angelo.
• Bishop of Zamora, Calahorra and Palencia.
• died in October 1470 in Rome.

Activities as Canonist

• Defensorium status ecclesiastici contra quaerulos
• De monarchia orbis
• De auctoritate Rom. Pontificis et generalium Conciliorum
• Speculum vitae humanae

Editions and Sources

• Speculum Humanae Vitae, In Quo Quid Prosperi et adversi quisque hominum status, dignitas, officium…, De Marchettis, Brixiae 1570.
• Der Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens, au dem Lateinischen übersetzt und mit Widmungsvorrede an Herzog Sigmund von Tirol von Heinrich Steinhöwel, Augsburg 1474.
• Epistula de expugnatione insulae Euboeae dictae Nigropontis a Turchorum principe ad cardinalem Bessarionem, Cologne 1470/71.

Introductory Secondary Literature

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, pp.316-317.