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WILLIAM OF VAUROUILLON, O.MIN. 315 reported by Pius nm, or as repeated by Rovere himself as Cardinal under Paul Il 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 Paris; 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 some 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 gymnasia Parisiensi tum docendo tum disputando tumque scribendo magnam eruditionis suae laudem commeruit 121 • 110 In his De contentione Divini Sanguinis, 299-308. 111 In a tract De sanguine Christi, Roma, no date, but printed during his pontificate, 1471-1484, on the press of J. P. de Lignamine (copy in the Vatican Library). 1 18 « Non vixit paulo post certamen Vilhelmus, ex morbo correptus obiit Rome: corpus eius Minores in Araceli condiderunt; viri vitam preter tumorem doctrine laudabilem et castam fuisse tradunt » (Prus II, Commentarii, 279). See also Marianus de F!orentia: « Fra– ter Guillelmus Varilongus prefatus [the notice is preceded by a short account of the dispute], sacre theo!ogie 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. Hie super 4 libros sententiarum et a!ios tractatus edidit » (Compendium Chronicarum Fr. Min. scriptum a Patre 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 Societe d'emulation des Cotes-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 may present the correct version here: « Januarius... 22. Obiit fr. Guillermus de Castro Briencii (l'annee n'y est pas). Eodem die obiit Rome Reverendus doctor frater Guillermus de Vallerouillonie (apparemment Vaucouleur) qui quidem doc_tor vocabatur a Summo Ponti– flee Pio 3° corona ordinis minorum anno 1462 » (B.N. frant;. 22327, p.154). The words in parentheses are those of the seventeenth century scribe, who apparently could not identify our William. The entry of Gui!lermus de Castro Briencii is given also, under date of 22 Jan., in another copy (B.N. coll. Baluze 41, f.41). Though Vaurouillon is omitted, this new list would rather confirm 22 January as the day of his death. 120 Nothing is to be found on Vaurouillon in Memorie istoriche della Chiesa e convento di S. Maria in Araceli di Roma, raccolte dal P.F. Casimiro Romano dell'Ordine de' Minari, Roma 1736. A visit to Araceli proved as frustrating! 121 John TRITHEMIUS, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, Parisiis 1512.