Gilbert Seagrave (theologian)

Gilbert Seagrave (also Segrave ) (* around 1260; † 1312 in Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon ) was an English clergyman and theologian.

Origin and advancement as a clergyman

Gilbert Seagrave probably came from the Seagrave family , an English noble family originally from Leicestershire . Possibly he was a younger son of Nicholas Seagrave, 1st Baron Seagrave . He must have studied the seven liberal arts at Oxford University around 1280 and eventually taught at the university himself. As a clergyman, he became rector of Harlaxton in Lincolnshire on November 20, 1282 . While he was teaching at Oxford, he received further benefices over the next few years , which is why he received a papal dispensation on February 3, 1291 because of this accumulation of offices . Among other things, he was on February 8, 1297 canon at Lincoln Cathedral and on December 10, 1303 archdeacon of Oxford. Before that, however, he had already entered the service of Archbishop Thomas Corbridge of York, whom he served as a representative in parliament from 1301 and as seneschal from 1303 . On August 2, 1303, he was sacristan of the chapel St Mary and the Holy Angels in York , but this office he had after the death of Corbridge pressure from King Edward I lay down again. Seagrave then traveled to France, where he probably took part in the coronation of Pope Clement V in October 1305 as the representative of the English king . Presumably he stayed in France afterwards, where he died in 1312 at the then papal court near Lyon . He was buried in the place where he died, Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon.

Activity as a theologian

Seagrave is said to have been the author of several Quaestiones and Quodlibet . In the 16th century, several copies of his writings are said to have been in libraries in Oxford, but they were probably later lost. From his writings, only a reply to a quaestio by the Cistercian Thomas Kirkeby and a treatise on the power of the word of God have survived. The treatise deals with a typically abstract subject of theology of the time. It is believed to have been written around 1297, and it shows that Seagrave was a follower of the well-known Oxford theologians Richard Clive , Thomas Sutton and William of Macclesfield from around Duns Scotus .

Web links

• Jeremy Catto: Seagrave [Segrave], Gilbert (c. 1260-1312). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004