ANDREA di NEUFCHÂTEAU (de Novo Castro). – A Scotist Franciscan of the fourteenth century, born in France at Neufchâteau (Vosges), whom some confused with Newcastle (England) and Castronuovo (Italy). He governed his province of Lorraine as minister and taught theology with such skill that he earned the honorific title «Doctor ingeniosissimus». In a still unpublished treatise, De conceptione B. Mariae, he advocates the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin. His principal work: Commentar. in Iem Sententiarum (Paris 1514).
BIBL.: P. Pauwels, L'Ordre franciscain et l'Immaculée Conception, Malines 1904, p. 79; J. H. Sbaralea, Supplementum et castigatio ad scriptores trium Ordinum s. Francisci, I, Rome 1908, pp. 37–38. Emanuele Chietini