John Bankin

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John Bankin (fl. 1347–1387),[1] was the prior of the Augustinian convent, London, and a religious controversialist (a supporter of John Wycliffe who turned opponent).[2]

Biography[]

Bankin, was born in London and educated in the Augustinian monastery of that city and afterwards at Oxford, where he attained the degree of doctor of divinity before 1382.[3]

In the early years of the 1370s Bankin appears to have been a supported of John Wyclif. Christina von Nolcken states that "In 1371 Bankin and another Augustinian friar (perhaps ) laid articles before parliament urging the use of clerical endowments to help finance the war in France. In making such a proposal they were voicing what seem to have been widely held ideas." that are known to be ones that Wyclif supported.[4]

By the end of the decade Bankin had turned against Wyclif, probably because he disliked the contents of Wyclif's De eucharistia (published in 1380).[4] He attended the provincial council of Blackfriars which condemned certain of Wycliffe's opinions in May 1382.[5] Bishop Bale states that Bankin was a popular preacher and an able disputant.Poole 1885, p. 136

Works[]

Bishop Bale states that his writings comprise Determinationes and Sermones ad Populum, as well as a book Contra Positiones Wiclevi.[6] Of these works, however, no copies are known to be extant.[7]

The ambiguity of the manuscript of the Fasciculi Zizaniorum,[8] which ignores the distinction between n and u, has led Shirley to print the name Baukinus; and Foxe anglicises it as Bowkin.[9] The n, however, appears in two other copies.[10][11]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Also spelt John Bankyn and John Banekyne
  2. ^ Poole 1885, pp. 136, 136.
  3. ^ von Nolcken 2009 cites J. Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae, quam nunc Angliam et Scotiam vocant: catalogus, 2 vols. in 1 (Basel, 1557–9); facs. edn (1971)
  4. ^ a b von Nolcken 2009.
  5. ^ Poole 1885, p. 136 cites Fasciculi Zizaniorum, pp. 286, 499; cf. pp. 272 sq.: ed. Shirley, Rolls Series.
  6. ^ Poole 1885, p. 136 cites Script. Illustr. Catal. vi. 97.
  7. ^ Poole 1885, p. 136.
  8. ^ Poole 1885, p. 136 cites Bodl. Libr. e Mus. 86, fol. 65 b, col. 1.
  9. ^ Poole 1885, p. 136 cites Fox Acts and Monuments, i. 495, ed. 1684
  10. ^ Poole 1885, p. 136 cites Fasc. Ziz. p. 499, and Wilkins, Council. Magn. Brit. iii. 158.
  11. ^ Poole 1885, p. 136 notes "The additions which Pits (Relat. Hist. de Rebus Angl. i. 539, 161) makes to Bankin's biography are ostensibly derived from the Fasciculi; but neither the edition nor the manuscript of this work contains anything beyond the bare name of the friar, and Pits's notice may be safely taken as a simple catholic version of Bale. The article in J. Pamphilus, Chron. Ord. Fratr. Eremit. S. August. (Rome, 1581, quarto), is equally unoriginal".

References[]

  • von Nolcken, Christina (May 2009) [2004]. "Bankin , John (fl. 1347–1387)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1307.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Poole, Reginald Lane (1885). "Bankyn, John". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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