Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio[1] (died 14 March 1509) was an Italian canon lawyer and Cardinal.[2] Agostino Oldoino calls him the leading jurisconsult of his age.[3] Kenneth Pennington has called him one of the ‘last two great commentators on feudal law’.[4]
- ^ Giovanni da San Giorgio, Giantonio da Sangiorgio, Johannes Antonius de Sancto Georgio. Gregorio for Georgio appears to be an error from an early book.
- ^ From 1493; he was bishop of Frascati in 1503, bishop of Palestrina in 1507, bishop of Sabina in 1508.
- ^ Agostino Oldoini (1676). Augustini Oldoini Athenaeum Romanum (in Latin) (Rome ed.). Perugia: Heredes Sebastiani Zechini. p. 380.: habitusque sui aevi Iurisconsultorum Princeps.
- ^ Ken Pennington, "The Development of Feudal Law in the Ius commune," in the article, "Law, Feudal," Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement 1 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons-Thompson-Gale, 2004), pp. 320-323. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-11-11. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
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