Christopher St. Germain

Christopher St. Germain
Born1460 (1460)
Shilton, Warwickshire, Kingdom of England
Died1540 (aged 79–80)
OccupationsLawyer; legal writer; polemicist
EraTudor period
Known forDoctor and Student; Treatise Concerning the Division between the Spiritualty and Temporality
Notable workDoctor and Student (1528); Salem and Bizance (1533)

Christopher St. Germain (1460–1540) was an English lawyer, legal writer, and Protestant polemicist during the reign of Henry VIII. He is best known as the author of Doctor and Student (1528), and as an early theorist of equity in English jurisprudence. In his later years, St. Germain became involved in theological controversies, notably engaging in a printed debate with Sir Thomas More over the division of authority between the clergy and the laity.

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