Francesc Eiximenis

Francesc Eiximenis (c. 1330–1409) was a Catalan Franciscan writer, probably born at Girona. He studied at Paris and took his theology doctorate at Toulouse in 1374.

From 1382 to 1408 he lived in Valencia; his works, above all Lo Crestià, were widely read, making him one of the most successful medieval Catalan writers, and Peter IV, John I and Martin I of Aragon and the Avignon pope Benedict XIII all read him. In 1408 Benedict XIII made him patriarch of Jerusalem, and he died at Perpignan in 1409.