ALBERTO di METZ. - Franciscan theologian of the early fourteenth century. Bachelor of theology at Paris (1302–1303), he was exiled from it for refusing to support the action against Bonifacio VIII. Gundisalvo, Minister General of the Order, recommended him, together with Duns Scoto, for a chair at the University of Paris (Ascoli Piceno, 18 Nov. 1304), probably unsuccessfully. In 1307 he appears to have been custos of his Order at Trier.
The writings attributed to him are for the most part lost. Munich, cod. lat. 8717 (ff. 103–104) contains a Quaestio disputata de principio individuationis. B. Hauréau published, in Notices et extraits... de la Bibl. Nat., IV, Paris 1892, pp. 20–28, several samples of sermons. Stefano Brulleier, at the end of the fifteenth century, cites a Commentary on the four books of the Sentences. He is also credited with a Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.