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Hugh of Vaucemain

French Dominican

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5933267 ↗
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Hugh of Vaucemain (died 1341) was a French Dominican, who became head of his order in 1333. He was a Burgundian.

His time as Master-General was marked by a conflict with Pope Benedict XII. Benedict, a Cistercian, was attempting a reform of the monastic orders. Hugh's position as the head of a mendicant order was apparently not against the reform as such, but derived from the feeling that the mendicants' position would then be threatened.

The Order numbered around 12,000 at this time, according to a census of 1337. This was a decade before the Black Death, which caused a general fall in population.

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“Hugh of Vaucemain” enters the record as french Dominican. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hugh, Vaucemain and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1341, 1333, 1337—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hugh, Vaucemain and French.
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“Hugh of Vaucemain” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hugh, Vaucemain and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5933267. VIAF identifies the subject as 286159474185727661676. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1341, 1333 and 1337.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hugh of Vaucemain” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.