[1] He set the trend towards Thomism as central to Dominican theology;[2] and campaigned against that of Durandus of Saint-Pourçain.
[3][4] He asked Bernard Gui to compose a replacement for the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.
[5] On 15 July 1317, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope John XXII as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela.
[6] He is remembered also for the building work he initiated on the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, and relics.
His Lumen animæ, seu liber moralitatum Magnarum rerum naturalium was printed in 1482 by Matthias Farinator [fr].