ST/EW/153

John the Sage

Gender

None

Floruit (period)

11th century

Floruit date range

? - ?

Description

'He should probably be identified with the John whose tomb William of Malmesbury described and whose epitaph he transcribed. He believed that this was John Scotus Erigena, the Irish philosopher of the 9th century, and that he was killed by the pens of his students after settling at Malmesbury. It seems certain that this is due to confusion with another John and that the manner of John's death is borrowed from the Acts of St Cassian of Imola'; ODS, 287.