- Jordanus of Giano
Jordanus of Giano (1195 – after 1262) was an Italian
Minorite fromGiano in the Valley of Spoleto.Jordanus joined the
Franciscans around 1220. A few years later he was sent toGermany with a group under Caesarius of Speyer, the first Franciscan provincial of Germany. He was ordained in 1223, and became the guardian atMainz and the custos of the Franciscan houses inThuringia in 1225. In 1230 and again in 1238, he returned toItaly on business relating to his order. He attended a chapter of German Franciscans held atHalberstadt in 1262. There he dictated the early memoirs of the Franciscans in Germany ("De primitivorum Fratrum in Theutoniam missorum et conversatione et vita") to a Brother Baldwin ofBrandenburg . The memoirs begin in the year 1207 and are one of the chief sources for Franciscan history in Germany. The only extant manuscript breaks off abruptly at the year 1238.References
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