Originally from 's-Heerenberg (Monte Domini), he went to the University of Cologne in 1450, where he was taught by his uncle Gerhardus de Monte, and received his Master of Arts in 1454, holding an arts professorship there from 1455 until 1473, when he became a doctor of theology.
He wrote several Thomist commentaries on Aristotle, including the Physics, De anima, and the logica nova, most of which were printed in Cologne during his lifetime or shortly thereafter.
He was a defender of the Thomistic interpretation of Aristotle against that of Albert the Great and his followers.
He also wrote copulata (introductory logical analysis) of Peter of Spain.
After Henry and Gerhardus, he was the third doctor of the bursa Montana, a college of students and faculty living in common.