Walter Chatton was born in the village of Chatton in Northumbria. He entered the Order of Friars Minor at a young age and pursued the normal course of theological studies. His first lectures on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, called Reportatio, were held between 1321 and 1323. At the time Chatton, with William of Ockham and Adam Wodeham, was located in one of the Franciscan studia, probably London or Oxford, where Wodeham was the scribe or reportator of Chatton's lectures. A second commentary on the Sentences (incomplete), called Lectura, dates from 1328 to 1330. Besides these two Sentence commentaries, a single set of Quodlibetal Questions (incomplete) survives. Chatton became the fifty-third regent master for the Franciscans at Oxford in 1330. He went to Avignon in 1333 and was appointed by Popes Benedict XII (d. 1342) and Clement VI (c. 1291–1352) as one of the examiners of the writings of Thomas...