PONCIUS CARBONELLUS (CARBONELLI), PONCIO. - French-Scot, b. c. 1260, d. 1350 at Barcelona.
In 1278 he entered the Franciscan Order and later became guardian of the convent of St Francis at Barcelona. Between 1288 and 1295 he was master of St Louis, later Bishop of Toulouse, when the latter was in Spain as a hostage for his father Charles of Anjou, Prince of Salerno, and for the infante John of Aragon. In 1314 James II sent him to his brother Frederick to induce the latter to expel the Fraticelli from Sicily, and in 1315 the same king sent him to negotiate peace between the said Frederick and Robert of Naples (H. Finke, *Acta Aragonescia*, II, no. 448). Carbonellus was confessor to John, infante of Aragon and archbishop of Toledo. In 1336, as provincial minister of Aragon, he took part in the publication of the Statutes of Cahors, and in 1337 in the general chapter of the Order.
He wrote: *Commentaria in Iuniversam Bibliam ad singula loca collectis abunde SS. Patrum sententiis*, so arranged that it could not improperly be called *Catena SS. Patrum in universam S. Scripturam*. Since this work was compiled by the same method as that of St Thomas Aquinas, some wished to attribute Carbonellus’s *Catena* to the latter; but the two works are independent. Carbonellus’s work survives in manuscript in six volumes in the library of the convent of St John of the Kings at Toledo.