SIMONE di HEINTUN. - English Dominican theologian of the thirteenth century. He held the chair of theology at Oxford (1248–54), succeeding R. Fishacre, whose disciple he was probably.
Elected provincial of England, he was deposed for insubordination and sent to Cologne as lector (1261–62), replacing s. Alberto Magno, who had been elected bishop of Ratisbona; but he was soon reinstated (1262).
His principal works are: Postilla sui Profeti minori (Oxford, New Coll. 45, pos. 211 segg.) and Quaestiones disputatae (manuscript in the Summa Abendoneensis, British Museum); Ad instructionem inniorum, published in 1606 in the Opera omnia of G. Gersone. It is a manual of practical theology that enjoyed enormous circulation in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.