GUALTIERO of BRUGES. - Franciscan, died in 1307. He was Provincial of France and Bishop of Poitiers (1279-1306).
He taught in Paris around 1267-69; he is the author of a Commentary on the Sentences (c. 1261-65; excerpted edition by E. Longpré, in Arch. d'hist. doctr. et littér. du moyen âge, 8 [1933]), and of Quaestiones disputatae (E. Longpré, Louvain 1928).
He is a faithful disciple of St. Bonaventure, whose doctrines he follows on illumination, the innateness of the knowledge of God, and the hylemorphic composition of spiritual substances.
BIBL.: E. Longpré, Gauthier de B. O. F. M. et l'augustinisme franciscain au XIIIe siècle, in Miscellanea Ebrei, I, Rome 1924, pp. 190-218; id., Le Commentaires sur les Sentences du b. Gauthier de B., in Etudes d'hist. litt. et doctr. du XIIIe siècle, 2 (1932), pp. 5-24.
Sofia Vanni Rovighi