Haymo de Faversham (Haymo de Feversham/Haymo of Faversham, † 1243/44, Anagni)

Haymo de Faversham (Haymo de Feversham/Haymo of Faversham, † 1243/44, Anagni) OM. English friar. Born in Kent. Was already a famous magister in Paris (`Aristotelissimus', `totius speculum honestatis magnusque theologus') and a preacher of renown when he entered the Franciscan order in St.-Denis at the instigation of Jordan of Saxony (general master of the Dominicans!). Received the habit on Good Friday 1225. Thereafter, between 1225-1230 and around 1235-1239 active as a teacher of the Order in Oxford, Tours, Bologna, Padua (and probably Paris). Ca. 1230 custos of Paris. Took part in the 1230 general chapter of Assisi, and one of the members of the delegation that asked pope Gregory IX for a declaration on the rule (resulting in Quo Elongati , 28 September 1230). In 1233/4, he was papal legate at Nicea (Byzantine empire). After 1237, Haymo became one of the more active critics of Elias of Cortona. In 1238, he was a driving force within the delegation that vocalised a number of complaints against Elias before pope Gregory IX in Rome. By 1239, when Haymo was already provincial minister of England, the complaints and Elias’ reactions caused the pope to depose Elias at the general chapter (Pentecost, 15 May 1239). Albert of Pisa was elected in his place. When Albert died on 23 January 1240, Haymo was elected minister general of the order on 1, 11, 1240. In his new position, Haymo took action against supporters of Elias (such as Gregory of Naples) and made several visitationary journeys (see also the Chronicle of Salimbene, which mentions Haymo several times, as well as De Adventu Fratrum Minorum of Thomas Eccleston). Stimulated the publication of the Expositio Regulae Quattuor magistrorum , and excluded lay brothers from high offices in the order. On papal request/request of the order he revised and ordered the missal and the breviarium of the order, therewith producing the missal and the breviary which became the standard in the Roman Church up till Trente and beyond.

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• Relatio Disputationis Habitae Coram Graecis Anno 1234 / Disputatio Latinorum et Graecorum seu Relatio apocrisariorum Gregorii IX de gestis Nicaeae in Bithynia et Nymphaeae in Lydia , edited in: Golubovich, Bibliotheca Bio-Bibliografica della Terra Santa (Quaracchi, 1906) I, 163-169 & Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 12 (1919), 418-470. See Sbaralea for older (partial) editions, and now also The Disputatio of the Latins and the Greeks, 1234. Introduction, Translation and Commentary , ed. Jeff Brubaker, Translated Texts for Byzantinists – Mediaeval Studies (Liverpool: Liverpool university Press, 2022) [clarifying review by Michael Robson in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 116:3-4 (2023), 621-623, which also ].

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• Breviarium : See a.o. MS BAV Ottob. 15 ff. 283r-293v & Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1906) XXIII, 91ff.

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• De Missae Caeremoniis ‘Indutus Planeta Sacerdos’ , edited in Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1511). See also Sources of the modern Roman liturgy: the ordinals by Haymo of Faversham and related documents 1243 - 1307 , ed. Stephen Joseph Peter van Dijk, 2 Vols. (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 1963).

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• In IV Sent . (mentioned by Wadding)

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• Sermonum per Annum Liber Unus ?

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