Valencia, Avignon, and in Between

  • Philip Daileader
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Abstract

That Vincent Ferrer was born in 1350 is likely, but not quite certain. In 1357, Vincent was described as “now” having (with the “now” implying a recent development) a clerical tonsure; to receive the tonsure, he should have been seven years old. He first appears as a member of the Order of Preachers, the religious order founded by Dominic Guzmán in the early thirteenth century, in 1368, a date that jibes well with a birth year of 1350. The Constitutions of the Dominican Order required new brothers to be at least 18 years old, although adherence to the age requirement was never perfect and became increasingly difficult following the Black Death of 1347-1351, when the deaths of so many friars created vacancies that the Dominicans strove to fill.1 Certainly Vincent was born in the city of Valencia, situated on Spain’s eastern coast; its chief municipal officials, the jurats, referred to Vincent in 1387 as a “natural-born Valencian” (natural d’aquesta Ciutat).2 The city of Valencia was the seat of the Kingdom of Valencia. That kingdom, the Principality of Catalonia, the Kingdom of Aragon, and other kingdoms and territories, comprised the medieval Crown of Aragon. King Jaume I of Aragon conquered the city of Valencia in 1238, ending roughly 500 years of nearly continuous Muslim rule, and he completed the conquest of the Kingdom of Valencia in 1245.

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Master General Dominican Order General Chapter Personal Supposition Theological Study 
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