Tancredus

(Bononiensis) 

Biography

• Born around 1185 in Bologna.
• Not to be confused with another Tancred, who was a Dominican Friar, even if he might have been member of the Order himself (?)
• Studied under Johannes Galensis and Laurentius Hispanus, Roman Law under Azo.
• Around 1214: Magister decretorum
• Stopped teaching but resumed after the death of Innocent III.
• 1215 or 1216: Canon in Bologna
• 1226: Archdeacon in Bologna
• Lead the investigation concerning the canonisation of St. Dominic.

Activities as Canonist

• One of the most influential Canonists of the 13^th century.
• Summa de sponsalibus et matrimonio
• Ordo judiciarius
• Apparatus ad Compilationem I, II, III., where seen as Glossa ordinaria until the Gregorian collection.
• Provinciale

Editions and Sources

• TANCREDUS, Bononiensis: Tancredi summa de matrimonio, ed. Agathon Wunderlich, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1841.
• TANCREDUS: Pillii, Tancredi, Gratiae Libri De Judiciorum Ordine, ed. Fridericus Bergmann, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1842,
• TANCREDUS: Summula de criminibus, ed. Fraher Richard: Tancred’s ‚Summula de criminibus’. A new text and a key to the ‘Ordo iudiciarius’, in: Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, Vol. 9/ 1979, p.29-35.
• TANCREDUS, Bononiensis: Summa quaestionum compendiosa, Heinrich von Köln, Urbino 1493.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• HAERING, Stephan: Tankred von Bologna, in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Vol.11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, pp.489-490.
• 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. 199-205.