RIGAUD (Rigaldus), Eudes (Odo). - Franciscan theologian and Archbishop of Rouen, b. at Brie-Compte-Robert or at Courquetain (Ile-de-France), d. at Rouen on 2 July 1275. He was a disciple of Alexander of Hales (v.), bachelor ca. 1240-45, regent master of the Franciscan School of Paris (1245-48).

He collaborated on the Expositio regulae quatuor Magistrorum (1242), wrote a commentary on the first three books of the Lombard's Sentences (the fourth, attributed to him, is spurious), a good number of Quaestiones disputatae and several sermons. His theological works, still unpublished, are of great importance and had considerable influence. From 1248 to 1275 he governed the archdiocese of Rouen with wisdom and pastoral zeal. He was a friend and counsellor of St. Louis, King of France, and accompanied him also to Tunis, during the Crusade of 1270. In 1274 he took part in the Second Council of Lyon. His diary, that is the Regestum visitationum (ed. Th. Bonnin, Rouen 1852), besides being the testimony of his manifold activity, is also the mirror of the spiritual life of the age and for this reason of great historical value.

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BIBL.: R. Ménindes, E. R., frère mineur, in Rev. d'hist. francisc., 8 (1931), pp. 157-68; O. Lottin, Une question disputée d'O. R. sur le libre arbitre, in Rev. thomiste, 36 (1931), pp. 886-895; B. Pergamo, Il desiderio innato nelle questioni inedite di O. Rigaldi, in Studi francesc., 32 (1935), pp. 414-36; 33 (1936), pp. 76-108; F. Pelster, Beiträge zur Erforschung des schriftl. Nachlasses O. Rigaldi, in Scholastik, 11 (1936), pp. 518-42; B. Pergamo, De quaestionibus ineditis O. Rigaldi, in Arch. Francisc. hist., 29 (1936), pp. 1-54, 308-64; P. Andrieu-Guitrancourt, L'archévêque E. R., Paris 1938; F. Henouinet, Eudes de Rouey, E. R. et la Somme d'Alexandre de Hales, in Arch. Francisc. hist., 33 (1940), pp. 3-54; O. Lottin, Psychologie et morale aux XIIe et XIIIe siècle, I, Louvain-Gembloux 1942; II, ibid. 1948 (v. index); Alexandri de Hales, Summa theologica, IV, Prolegomena, Quaracchi 1948, pp. cxxviii-cxxxvii with ample bibl.; K. Lynch, The alleged fourth book on the Sentences of Odo R., in Franciscan studies, 9 (1949), pp. 87-145; L. Oliger, Expositio quatuor Magistrorum super regulam Fratrum Minorum, Rome 1950.

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