Hugh

HUGH OF NEWCASTLE (fl. 1326)

A Franciscan, Hugh probably entered the Minorite order at Newcastle. He attended the lectures of John Duns Scotus in Paris, and was one of those who issued the famous letter to the Pope on apostolic poverty. He was buried in Paris. His treatise De Victoria Christi contra Anti-Christum, praised by Bartholomew of Pisa, was published in Nuremburg in 1471.

Hugh of Newcastle appears as a character in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which was filmed in 1986 with Sean Connery.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
HUGH OF NEWCASTLE (fl. 1326) A Franciscan, Hugh probably entered the Minorite order at Newcastle. He attended the lectures of John Duns Scotus in Paris, and was one of those who issued the famous letter to the Pope on apostolic poverty. He was buried in Paris. His treatise De Victoria Christi contra Anti-Christum, praised by Bartholomew of Pisa, was published in Nuremburg in 1471. Hugh of Newcastle appears as a character in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which was filmed in 1986 with Sean Connery.
Return to Index	On to next Author