Eudes Rigaud

Odo Rigaud (sometimes Eudes Rigaud, Eudes II Rigaud, Odo Rigaldi, or Eudes Rigaldi) (c. 1210 - 1275) was a university lecturer, member of the Franciscan order, and the Archbishop of Rouen from 1247 until his death in 1275.

Life

Rigaud was born into a family of minor nobility in the Île de France around the year 1210, and became a lecturer in the 1230s. Rigaud was elected as archbishop of Rouen by a cathedral chapter in 1247, becoming the first Franciscan friar to do so. The unique theological perspectives contained within—particularly those regarding free will—are purported to have inspired Albert Magnus, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas, all of whom read the commentary. Evidently, Rigaud was a close friend of the king before his death, and was previously involved in negotiating the Treaty of Paris between England and France in 1259, successfully ending the First Hundred Years' War. Rigaud died five years following Louis' crusade in the year of 1275.