WILLIAM of Nottingham, senior. – François, in *La Capitolo di Metz nella primavera del 1250*. In 1239 provincial vicar of England, in 1240 he became provincial. As such, in 1244 he subscribed to the Constitution of Henry III for the University of Oxford, by which a special tribunal was established for scholars and which forms the basis for the jurisdiction of the Chancellor.
G. was a diligent scholar of Holy Scripture, and it seems he studied at Oxford under Grosseteste, of whom he was a friend. He energetically promoted the study of theology and the observance of the Franciscan Rule in its original purity. He successfully defended the interests of his Order at the Roman Curia against the Dominicans. He was highly esteemed and loved by his brethren, and when the Minister General of the Order, John of Parma, at the Chapter of 1248 wished to depose him for reasons unknown to us, he met with the general disapproval of the English friars, who elected him again. In 1250 he went as legate to the Pope.
He wrote a commentary on the Gospels, called *Unum ex quatuor* or also *De Concordia Evangeliorum*, which is based on the work of Clement of Lanthony, and was highly esteemed in the Middle Ages, as evidenced by the large number of manuscripts.
