Philip of Majorca

Philip of Majorca (1288–c. 1343), youngest son of James II of Majorca, came from a pious family: his grandfather James I had given up his crowns to become a monk. At Avignon in 1308 he met the Spiritual Franciscan Angelo da Clareno, sheltering him at Perpignan from 1311.

Philip joined the Franciscan Third Order and held that all clergy should live in poverty, even after John XXII denounced the Spirituals as heretics in 1316. He made Majorca a haven for Beguines hunted in southern France, and vainly asked the pope to recognize his new order, the Brothers of the Poor Life.

After his brother King Sancho died in 1324 he regented for his nephew James III until 1329. From 1335 he lived at his sister Queen Sancia's Naples court, leading a Fraticelli brotherhood until death.