Cologne - Duns Scotus

Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".

The Conventual Franciscans (aka Minorites), had this Gothic church built. The early Gothic choir was erected 1245 to 1260, the nave was completed in the 14th century.

Here is the tomb Duns Scotus

Duns Scotus (1266 – 1308) was a Scotsman from a town named Duns. He is considered to be one of the most important philosopher-theologians of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages. He was a Friar Minor, his ordination to the priesthood took place in Northampton in 1291. Around 1300 he was in Oxford and in 1302 he began lecturing at the University of Paris. Later that year he was expelled from the university for siding with Pope Boniface VIII in his feud with King Philip IV of France over the taxation of church property. Duns Scotus was back in Paris in 1304 where he continued lecturing there until he was dispatched to the Franciscan studium at Cologne in 1307.

Duns Scotus died in Cologne in November 1308. The tomb bears the Latin inscription:

"Scotia me genuit. Anglia me suscepit. Gallia me docuit. Colonia me tenet."