WILLIAM of HOTHUM (HOZUM, HENDON). - Dominican theologian, d. at Dijon on 27 Aug. 1298. In 1269 he lectured on the Sentences of Peter Lombard at Oxford; in 1280–82 he was master of theology at Paris, then provincial superior of his Order for England, and in 1296 archbishop of Dublin. In 1284, after the condemnation of Richard Knapwell, he defended this author and his doctrine of the uniqueness of substantial forms against the Franciscan archbishop Peckham.
Works: a Quodlibet disputed at Paris in 1280, a Disputed Question and a Question in the evening lectures, as well as some Sermons (all unpublished).
BIBL.: A. G. Little and F. Pelster, Oxford theology and theology, 1282–1302, Oxford 1934, pp. 83–87; F. Pelster, s. V. in LTHK, X, col. 899; M. de Wulf, Storia della filosofia mediev. vers. it., II, Florence 1945, p. 191 sq.