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Alexander was born at Hales ( today Halesowen, West Midlands ), Shropshire, England between 1180 and 1186.
During the University strike of 1229, Alexander participated in an embassy to Rome to discuss the place of Aristotle in the curriculum.
Having held a prebend at Holborn ( prior to 1229 ) and a canonry of St. Paul ’ s in London ( 1226-1229 ), He visited England in 1230 and received a canonry and an archdeaconry in Coventry and Lichfield, his native diocese.
He taught at Paris in the academic year 1232-33, but was appointed to a delegation by Henry III of England in 1235, along with Simon Langton and Fulk Basset, to negotiate for the renewal of the peace between England and France.
In 1236 or 1237, aged about 50, he made the surprising step of entering the Franciscan order, thus becoming the first Franciscan to hold a University chair.
He continued to teach and to represent the University, and participated in the First Council of Lyon in the winter of 1245.
Shortly before his death, he passed his chair on to John of La Rochelle, setting the precedent for that chair to be held by a Franciscan.
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