Jean XXI

Jean XXI , known under the name of Pedro Hispano , born Pedro Julião with Lisbon towards 1220, 187 {{E}} pope of 1276 with 1277, is the only Portuguese pope of the history, “ Piscator Thuscus ” in the Prophétie of Saint Malachie. Doctor, philosopher and mathematician, it considers a new theory based on the Logique and the Grammaire.

Biography

Pedro Julião is born with Lisbon between 1210 and 1220; he is the son of the doctor Julião Rebelo and Teresa Gil.

He begins his studies in the episcopal school of the cathedral of Lisbon, and attends then the university of Paris (some historians affirm that it was that of Montpellier) where he studied the Médecine and the Théologie, giving an special attention to the conferences of Dialectique, Logique and especially with the Physique and the Métaphysique of Aristote.

Between 1245 and 1250, it teaches the Médecine with the Université of His, where it writes some works, from which Summulæ Logicales which was, for the European universities is distinguished, the handbook of reference of the logical aristotelician.

In 1272, it is named archbishop of the secular city of Braga and all its area of influence, succeeding D. Martinho Geraldes.

After the death of the pope Adrien V, the August 18th 1276, Pedro Hispano is elected pope by the conclave of the September 13rd and is crowned the September 20th. He dies eight month afterwards, the May 20th 1277, after being seriously wounded at the time of an accident which has occurred in the cathedral of Viterbe, of which he directed work. He was buried there until our days.

In March 2000, by a special engagement of the mayor of Lisbon, João Barroso Soares, it to him was conceded a more honorary place and was then transferred in the central alley.

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