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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
- Child of Landulphe d'Aquino and Teodora Galluccio
- Dated 1225 CE – 7 March 1274 CE
- Recognised as Canonized saint, 18 July 1323 CE
Apologist
Aquino
Belcastro
Chastity
Domains on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- Dates unrecorded professor
Family
The family of Thomas Aquinas
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 6
Family 6
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274) 
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Associated with
Connections
How Thomas Aquinas connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 20
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
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was influenced by Al-Ghazali Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111) - was influenced by Al-Kindi Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
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was influenced by Albertus Magnus German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280) -
was influenced by Anselm of Canterbury 11th‑century Benedictine monk, Archbishop of Canterbury, philosopher and theologian -
was influenced by Aristotle Greek philosopher -
was influenced by Augustine of Hippo Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430) -
was influenced by Averroes Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198) -
was influenced by Avicenna Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037) -
was influenced by Boethius Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480–524)
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was influenced by Cicero Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC) -
was influenced by Gregory I 6th-century Roman Pope, theologian and Church Father, Catholic and Orthodox saint, 64th Bishop of Rome and Doctor of the Church -
was influenced by Johannes Scotus Eriugena Irish Catholic philosopher and theologian (c. 800 – c. 877) -
was influenced by Moshe ben Maimon Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204) -
was influenced by Paul the Apostle Early Christian apostle and missionary (c. AD 5 – c. 64/65) -
was influenced by Plato 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher -
influenced Dante Alighieri Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321) -
influenced G. K. Chesterton English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936) -
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influenced Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716) -
influenced René Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650) -
influenced William of Ockham English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
37 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 34 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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