Not to be confused with the
earlier William of Nottingham who also served as the English Minister Provincial of the Franciscan Order.
William of Nottingham,
OFM (
Latin: Guilelmus de Nottingham or Nothingham;
d. 1330
x 1336) was an English
Franciscan friar who served as the seventeenth
Minister Provincial of
England (c. 1316–1330).
William died in
Leicester sometime between 1330[10] and 1336[11] and was buried in the same
Greyfriars cemetery that later held
Richard III.[12] For a time, it was thought that his body may have been the one discovered in a double stone-and-lead coffin near Richard III's remains.[10][13] However, continued investigation established that tomb belonged to an as-yet-unknown elderly woman.[14]
His Sentences (
Latin: Sententiae) survives in a single copy and preserves various statements made by
John Duns Scotus and his classmates while at Oxford, where they immediately preceded William.[18] One section thoroughly and temperately covers the
scholastic opinions on the eternity of the world prior to the 1316 disputation, reaching the conservative conclusion that nothing truly infinite exists within
God's Creation.[19]
Dumont, Stephen D. (1994), "William of Ware, Richard of Conington, and the Collationes Oxonienses of John Duns Scotus", John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics: Proceedings of a Conference Held March 14–18, 1994, at the University of Bonn, Studien und Texte zur Geistegeschichte des Mittelalters, No. 53, Leiden: published in 1996 by E.J. Brill, pp. 59–86,
ISBN90-04-10357-0.
Little, Andrew George (1895), "
William of Nottingham", Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XLI, London: Smith, Elder, & Co.
Salzman, L.F., ed. (1948),
"Franciscans, Cambridge", A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, Vol. II, London: Victoria County History, pp. 276–282.