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WILLIAM OF VAUROUILLON, O.MIN. 315 reported by Pius II 116 , or as repeated by Rovere himself as Cardinál under Paul II 117 , we rather sense that William had a hand in its composition. The authorities cited, Bonaventure, Scotus, Richard, Francis de Mayronis, are all favorites of Vaurouillon; there are references to the relic of La Rochelle and to the dispute thereon at París; while della Rovere cites a Bull of Pius II which is found apud fratres minores provincie Thuronie. William did not survive long after the disputation: non vixit paulo post certamen. Taken ill of perhaps a heart-attack: incidit in gravem infirmitatem pectoris 118 , he died early in 1463 and was buried at Aracoeli. A late copy of the Obituary of the convent of Dinan gives 22 January 1462 (o.s.) as the date of his death; and there is no reason to refuse to accept this testimony 119 • There seems, unfortunately, no record or indication of his grave in Aracoeli, whether in the church or in sorne long-forgotten cemetery 120 • So closed the vigorous, interesting and sometimes stormy career of one of the greater Franciscan Scholastics of the fifteenth century: qui in gymnasio Parisiensi tum docendo tum disputando tumque scribendo magnam eruditionis suae laudem commeruit 121 • 116 In his De contentione Divini Sanguinis, 299-308. 117 In a tract De sanguine Christi, Roma, no date, but printed duri11g his po11tificate, 1471-1484, 011 the press of J. P. de Lignamine (copy in the Vatican Library). 11 s « Non vixit paulo post certamen Vi!helmus, ex morbo correptus obiit Rome: corpus eius Minores in Araceli condiderunt; viri vitam preter tumorem doctrine Iaudabilem et castam fuisse tradunt » (Prus II, Conunentarii, 279). See also Maria11us de Florentia: « Fra– ter GuiIIelmus Varilongus prefatus [the notice is preceded by a short account of the dispute], sacre theologie magister Parisinus, vir quidem doctissimus, post disputationem fatigatus, incidit in gravem infirmitatem pectoris, non sine tristitia totius Romane Curie, de qua tamen moriens in sancta Maria de Araceli sepultus. Cuius exequie per reverendissimos Car– dinales ex iussu Pontificis celebrate fuere. Hic super 4 libros sentcntiarum et alios tractatus edidit » (Compendium Chronicarum Fr. Min. scriptum a Paire Mariano de Florentia, in Arch. Franc.Hist. 4[1911] 319). 110 The text as published by A. Lemasson, Obituaire du couvent des Cordeliers de Dinan, in Société d'émulation des Cótes-du-Nord, 1922, 125, is rather faulty (I have derived this notice from France Franciscaine 5[1922] 251-253). Thanks to Mlle M.-Th. d'Alverny, we rnay present the correct version here: « Januarius ... 22. Obiit fr. Guillermus de Castro Briencii (l'a1111ée 11'y es! pas). Eodem die obiit Rome Revere11dus doctor frater GuiIIermus de Vallerouillonie (apparemment Vaucouleur) qui quidem doc.tor vocabatur a Summo Po11ti– fice Pio 3° corona ordinis minorum an110 1462 » (B.N. fran9. 22327, p.154). The words in pare11theses are those of the seve11tee11th ce11tury scribe, who apparently could not identify our William. The e11try of GuiIIermus de Castro Briencii is give11 also, under date of 22 Jan., in another copy (B.N. col/. Baluze 41, f.41). Though Vaurouil1011 is omitted, this new Jist would rather confirm 22 Ja11uary as the day of his death. 120 Nothing is to be found 011 Vaurouillon in Memorie istoriche della Chiesa e convento di S. Maria in Araceli di Roma, raccolte da! P.F. Casimiro Romano dell'Ordine de' Minori, Roma 1736. A visit to Araceli proved as frustrating! 121 Joh11 TRITHEMIUs, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, Parisiis 1512.