Alvarus Pelagius
Alvarus Pelagius (Spanish Álvaro Pelágio, Alvaro Pelayo, portug. Álvaro Pais, Álvaro Paez ) (* 1275-1280 in Salnes (Galicia ); † January 25, 1350 in Seville) was a Franciscan theologian and bishop of Silves ( Portugal).
Life
Alvarus was illegitimate origin, alleged illegitimate son of the admiral and poet Payo Gómez Charino († 1295), and to have received his first education at the court of Sancho IV of Castile. For his studies he went to Italy and studied law in Bologna and Perugia. In Bologna, where he scored Guido de Baysio his teachers, he was his Doctor of Laws, taught there since 1300 and took, according to Johannes Andreae participated in several disputations.
In 1304 he resigned his benefices, donated his possessions to the poor and was taken during the General Chapter of the Franciscans in Assisi by their Minister General Gonzalo de Balboa in the Order. In the poverty dispute, he took views of the Spirituals and representatives of the Strict Observance of the Rule, but remained concerned about reconciliation with the authorities of the Order and the Church hierarchy. 1321 he took part in the General Chapter of Perugia, in the following years he stayed among others in Assisi ( 1326), in the convent of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome ( 1327-1329 ) and in Anagni ( 1328 ). In the conflict between Pope John XXII. and Ludwig, he represented the Bayern during these years the position of the Pope against Louis Antipope Nicholas V and this developed his doctrine of absolute violence ( plenitudo potestatis ) of the pope over the members of the Church and the secular authorities.
John XXII. summoned him before in 1330 for his apostolic penitentiary and confessor to Avignon. 1332 he received a dispensation from the Pope for his illegitimate origin, the counter stood a higher ecclesiastical office, and was appointed by him as bishop of the diocese Greek Coron. However, it does not seem that this Alvarus took office. On 9 June 1333, however, was transferred to the seat of the Bishop of Silves in the vicinity of present-day Faro and was active there as a reformer and fighter then alleged heretics, as against a persecuted by him as Averroist philosopher Thomas Scotus, on the otherwise hardly little is known. In the conflict between King Alfonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI. of Castile seems to have turned against the Portuguese king Alvarus. He had to escape an assault on his person from his diocese and stayed then until his death in Seville.
Major works
- De statu ecclesiae libri duo et planctu. Main work on the position of the Pope and the state of the church, created in three editorial offices from 1330 to 1332 and subsequently revised twice ( 1335, 1340), first printed in Ulm in 1474, modern editions of Vitorino Meneghin: Scritti di fra Inediti Alvaro Pais. Lisbon in 1969, and by Miguel Pinto de Meneses, Lisbon 1996-1998. Digitised: Ulm edition: Johann Zainer Elder, 1474 Bavarian State Library in Munich
- Output Lyon: Johannes Clein, 1517, Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela
- Venice edition: Francesco Sansovino, in 1560, Digital Library of Bizkaia region, requires Java
- Speculum regum. A Mirror of Princes, written 1341-1344 in Tavira, dedicated to King Alfonso XI. of Castile and cardinal Gil de Albornoz. Edited by Miguel Pinto Meneses, Lisbon 1955-1963.
- Collyrium fidei adversus haereses. written about 1348 against Averroists, Spirtualen, Beguines and Begarden, Jews and Muslims. Edited by Miguel Pinto de Meneses, Lisbon 1954-1956.