GONSALVO ISPANO, known as di Vallebona or di Balboa. - Franciscan theologian, born in Galicia, died in Paris on 13 Apr. 1313. A religious of the province of S. Giacomo, of which he became minister ca. 1290. He completed his studies in Paris; he obtained the baccalaureate around 1288, and the mastership ca. 1301. In the academic year (scholaris) 1302-1303 he was magister regens at the University of Paris, which he was forced to leave following the dispute between Filippo II Bello and Bonifacio VIII, since he had refused to subscribe to the convocation of the General Council proposed by the king against the Pope. In Spain he was elected minister of the province of Castile, and at the General Chapter of 1304, in Assisi, minister general of the Order. During this office he presented G. Duns Scoto, whom he had known experientia longa, to the University of Paris for the attainment of the mastership, in a letter of 18 Nov. 1304, which is the first and most flattering eulogy of the “subtle doctor.”
His principal writings are the Conclusiones theologicae, published in Venice in 1503 and in Paris in 1891, always under the name of Scoto; the Quaestiones disputatae and the Quodlibet, ed. by L. Amorós in 1935. These are followed by other minor writings relating to his office as general of the Order or connected with the controversy between the community and the Spirituals.