Simon Tunsted [SEP] religious order
Simon Tunsted
Simon Tunsted (died 1369) was a Franciscan friar, theologian, philosopher and musician. The authorship of "Quatuor Principalia Musicae", a treatise on music, is generally attributed to him.
He originated from Norwich, though his year of birth is unknown. In Norwich, he joined a Greyfriars monastery and became a doctor of theology. He went on to become master of the Minorites at Oxford (in 1351). He died at Bruisyard, Suffolk. He was twenty-ninth provincial superior of
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Notable Members of the Order Venerables.
- Quirico Pignalberi (1891-1982)
Notable Members of the Order Servants of God.
- Nicolò Cortese (1907-44)
Notable Members of the Order Popes and Clergy.
- Pope Sixtus IV (1414-84)
- Pope Sixtus V (1521-90)
- Pope Clement XIV (1705-74)
Notable Members of the Order Scholars.
- Simon Tunsted (d.1369)
- Nicholas of Freising (C14th)
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