Jan van He, Latinized Johannes de Capella (died before April 1311) was a monk of the

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Sain ...

Ter Doest Abbey Ter Doest Abbey ( nl, Abdij Ter Doest) was a Cistercian abbey in Belgium, in the present Lissewege, a district of Bruges, West Flanders. History Lambert, lord of Lissewege, left an estate with a chapel in 1106 to the Benedictines, who built a ...

, in the

County of Flanders The County of Flanders was a historic territory in the Low Countries. From 862 onwards, the counts of Flanders were among the original twelve peers of the Kingdom of France. For centuries, their estates around the cities of Ghent, Bruges and Y ...

, who graduated

Bachelor of Sacred Theology The Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology ( la, Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureus; abbreviated STB), not to be confused with a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Theology, is the first of three ecclesiastical degrees in theology (the second being the Lic ...

from the

Collège de Sorbonne The College of Sorbonne (french: Collège de Sorbonne) was a theological college of the University of Paris, founded in 1253 (confirmed in 1257) by Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), after whom it was named. With the rest of the Paris colleges, ...

in the

University of Paris The University of Paris (french: link=no, Université de Paris), Metonymy, metonymically known as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, active from 1150 to 1970, with the exception between 1793 and 1806 under the French Revo ...

in 1303, and taught theology in the college from 1303 to 1306.

Adriaan Pattin Adriaan Pattin (1914–2005) was a Belgian historian of medieval philosophy. His 1966 edition of the Pseudo-Aristotelian ''Liber de Causis'', although intended to be "provisional", was for decades the best version available to scholars. Life Pattin ...

, "He, Jan van", '' Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek'', vol. 16 (2002), 426. In 1286 his mother, Margriet, had given him the house she was living in to pay for the books he would need for his studies. In 1311 the use of his books passed to

Jan Sindewint Jan Sindewint, Latinized Joannes de Dunis (died 1319) was a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Dunes in the County of Flanders, and from 1311 a professor of theology at the Collège Saint-Bernard in the University of Paris. In 1311 he acquired the u ...

, a monk of the Abbey of Dunes.

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