ERVEO (Hervaeus Natalis) of NEDELLEC (also called Hervaeus Brito, that is, of Brittany). - Dominican scholastic of the 13th-14th centuries. He studied at the University of Paris, where he obtained the title of master of theology in 1307. He was provincial for France in 1309 and general of the Order in 1318; he died at Narbonne in 1323. The principal representative of the French Thomistic school in the first decades after the death of the master, E. vigorously defended the doctrine of St. Thomas against its many adversaries, and especially against Durando di S. Porziano.
He wrote a Commentary on the Sentences (ed. Venice 1505, Paris 1657); De potestate Ecclesiae et papae (ed. Paris 1506); De secundis intentionibus. Tractatus 8; De beatitudine, De Verbo, De aeternitate mundi, De materia caeli, De relationibus, De unitate formarum, De tertutibus, De moto angeli; as well as two collections: Quodlibeta minora et quodlibeta maiora (ed. Venice 1486). The Defensa doctrine Divi Thomae, whose first part was published by E. Krebs, remains incomplete.