Tancred (Tancredus)

TANCREDI (Tancredus). - Canonist, b. in Bologna around 1185, d. there between 1234 and 1236.

Canon and then archdeacon of Bologna (1226), he is known from as early as 1214 as decretorum magister; he was also grand chancellor of the University. Besides teaching, he received very numerous positions of trust from the pontiffs Innocent III, Honorius III and Gregory IX, above all for settling disputes and eliminating abuses (a case with the podestà of Mantua over Massa Fiscalia, the excommunication of the praetor of Florence over the privilege of forum, a question between the archbishop of Ravenna and the city of Cervia, between the abbot of Nonantola and the bishop of Pistoia). He took part in the settlement of disputes in Bologna itself (the monks of S. Michele against the Chapter, the bishop against the Canons Regular of S. Salvatore, the Bolognese and the Modenese, the bishop and the Commune); he was a member of the Commission for the canonization of St. Dominic. When Honorius III published the Compilatio quinta, he dedicated it to him, recommending its diffusion and observance in the schools and in the tribunals. His genuine works are: Ordo iudiciarius, written between 1214 and 1216, reworked by Bartolomeo da Brescia in 1236 (latest ed., edited by F. Bergmann, Göttingen 1842); Summa de matrimonio, written between 1210 and 1214 (latest ed., edited by A. Wunderlich, Göttingen 1841); Apparatus ad Compilationem I, II, III: the 1st (1210-15) is included in the glossa ordinaria, the 2nd (written before 1215) was redone together with the 1st after 1220, the 3rd (1220) is included in the glossa ordinaria; Glossae ad Compilationem V; Provinciale (manuscripts at Bamberg and Einsiedeln).

Augusto Moreschini