| Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists |
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Report No. r389 |
Johannes Alphonsus de Mella |
1397–1467 |
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| Alternative Names |
Juan Alfonso de Mella |
Biography/Description |
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Born at Zamora in 1397, Johannes studied and taught canon law at Salamanca. By 1419, he was decretorum doctor. In 1423, he became auditor of the Roman Rota. In this function he wrote numerous consilia, such as one supporting the English king’s claims to the French throne according to the treaty of Troyes (1420), and was often involved in high politics. Thus, he was sent as a papal envoy to the councils of Basel and Ferrara. His writings are mostly related to these missions. In 1437, he became bishop of León (1437), and was later transferred to Zamora (1440) and Siguenza (1466). He nevertheless spent most of his time at the curia in Rome, where he was named cardinal in 1456. Johannes died in 1467. |
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Entry by: KP rev BP 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Consilia. |
| No. 1a | Allegationes in facto regis Francie et Anglie. |
| No. 1b | Allegaciones super XLII legibus factis per dominum regem Portugalie. |
| No. 2 | Decisiones reverendi patris domini Iohannis de Mella. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
| No. 1a |
Allegationes in facto regis Francie et Anglie. |
| Manuscript | Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat. 2688, fol. 17r–19r |
| No. 1b |
Allegaciones super XLII legibus factis per dominum regem Portugalie. |
| Manuscript | Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat. 2688, fol. 1r–2v, 35r–63v (Fragment) |
Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat. 2681, fol. 19r–51v (Without prologue.) |
| No. 2 |
Decisiones reverendi patris domini Iohannis de Mella. |
| Manuscript | Città del Vaticano, BAV Vat. lat. 2665, fol. 198r–302v |
Literature |
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E. Garcí Fernández, ‘Herejía y disidencia religiosa en el norte de la península ibérica en el siglo XV: Alonso de Mella y los herejas de Durango’, Heresis: Revue semestrielle d’Histoire des Dissedences médiévales, 41 (2004) 75–94. |
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T. Izbicki, ‘A tract on the plague falsely attributed to Juan de Mella’, Homenaje a Pedro Sainz Rodriguez III: Estudios historicos (Madrid 1986) 367–72. |
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A. García y García, Estudios sobre la canonística portuguesa medieval (Madrid 1976) 147–49. |
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T. Izbicki, ‘Notes on late medieval jurists I’, BMCL, 4 (1974) 49–53. |
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A. García y García, ‘La Canonística Ibérica Medieval posterior al Decreto de Graciano’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiaticas de España (Salamanca 1971) 2.191–92. |
