Bertram Fitzalan

{{Short description|English Carmelite theologian}}

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Bertram Fitzalan (died 1424) was an English Carmelite theologian.

Life

Fitzalan entered the Carmelite fraternity at Lincoln, and studied at Oxford, where William Quaplod, also a Carmelite, was his friend and patron.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Fitzalan, Bertram}} He was at the trial in 1392 of Henry Crump, and was by then B.D.{{ODNBweb|id=9527|title=Fitzalan, Bertram|first=Richard|last=Copsey}}

Fitzalan, after proceeding to the degree of master, seems to have returned to Lincoln. He died on 17 May 1424.

Works

He founded a library in Lincoln. In it John Bale saw the following works of his:

  • 'Super quarto Sententiarum liber i.,'
  • 'Quæstiones Theologiæ,' and
  • 'Ad plebem Conciones.'

A volume of Excerpta in the library of Balliol College, Oxford once attributed to Fitzalan is now thought to be by Bertrand de Alen.

References

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Category:Carmelites

Category:English theologians

Category:15th-century English Roman Catholic theologians

Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford

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