GODIN, GUILLAUME-PIERRE. - Dominican cardinal, b. at Bayonne c. 1260, d. at Avignon on 4 June 1356. A religious in his native city, he studied at Brives, taught at Orthez (1281), Bordeaux (1282), Condom (1283, 1290), Montpellier (1284-86, 1292), Bayonne (1287), Toulouse and Paris. He was provincial of Provence (1302-1303) and then of Toulouse (1303-1304). Master in theology in 1304, he taught at Paris (1304-1305), where he engaged in a disputation with Duns Scotus. From 1306 to 1312 he was Master of the Sacred Palace. On 23 Dec. 1312 he was created cardinal of the title of St. Cecilia, in 1317 transferred to the suburbicarian see of Sabina.
He enjoyed great influence over the pontiffsClement V, John XXII and Benedict XII, who loaded him with honours and benefices and entrusted him with various diplomatic missions (e.g., the legation to Spain). To him was entrusted the direction of the trial for the examination of the doctrine of Ubertino da Casale. He was one of the principal representatives of Thomism in an age in which even within the Dominican Order an attempt was being made at a compromise with heterogeneous theological doctrines. His best-known work is the Lectura Thomasina (preserved in various manuscripts): a commentary on the Sentences, which demonstrates his fidelity to the Aquinate. A Quaestio on the principle of individuation also survives from him, as well as a Tractatus de causa immediata ecclesiasticae potestatis (Paris 1506, published under the name of Peter of Palude).
Bibliography6 worksQuétif-Echard, I, pp. 501-93; P. Fournier, Le cardinal G. P. G., in Bibliothèque de l'École de Chartes, 86 (1925), pp. 100-21; M. Grabmann,
BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, I, pp. 501-93; P. Fournier, Le cardinal G. P. G., in Bibliothèque de l'École de Chartes, 86 (1925), pp. 100-21; M. Grabmann, Kardinal G. P. de G. und seine Lectura Thomasina, in Divus Thomas (Friburgo), 4 (1926), pp. 385-403; R. Martin, Les questions sur le péché originel de la Lectura Thomasina de G. G., in Mélanges Mandonnet, I, Parigi 1930, pp. 411-21; M. H. Laurent, Le testament et la succession du cardinal dominicain G. P. G., in Archivum Fr. Praed., 2 (1932), pp. 84-213; A. Walz, I cardinali domenicani, in Memorie domenicane, 56 (1939), p. 185.
Alfonso D'Amato
GODINEZ (WADDING), MICHAEL: v. WADDING (GODINEZ), MICHAEL.
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Godin, guillaume-pierre.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, coll. 889–890. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/godin-guillaume-pierre.
MLA
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Godin, guillaume-pierre.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 889–890. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/godin-guillaume-pierre.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_godin_guillaume_pierre,
author = {D'Amato, Alfonso},
title = {Godin, guillaume-pierre},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {889--890},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/godin-guillaume-pierre}
}
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