Adam Moleyns
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Adam MoleynsTemplate:Efn (died 9 January 1450), Bishop of Chichester, was an English bishop, lawyer, royal administrator and diplomat. During the minority of Henry VI of England, he was clerk of the ruling council of the Regent.[1]
Life
Moleyns had the living of Kempsey from 1433.[2] He was Dean of Salisbury from 1441 to 1446. He became bishop of Chichester on 24 September 1445, and was consecrated bishop on 6 February 1446.[3] He was Lord Privy Seal in 1444,[4] at the same time that he was Protonotary of the Holy See. In 1447 he had permission to fortify the manor house at Bexhill.[5]
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And this yeer...maister Adam Moleyns, bisshoppe of Chichestre and keper of the kyngis prive seel, whom the kyng sente to Portesmouth, forto make paiement of money to certayne soudiers and shipmenne for thair wages; and so it happid that with boistez langage, and also for abriggyng of thair wages, he fil in variaunce with thaym, and thay fil on him, and cruelli there kilde him.[6] - The Brut Chronicle
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Moleyns was a correspondent of the humanist Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pope Pius II, who complimented him in a letter of 29 May 1444: "And I congratulate you and England, since you care for the art of rhetoric".[7] In 1926 George Warner attributed The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye (1435–38) to Moleyns but this theory was partly based on Warner's mistaken identification of Adam Moleyns as a member of the family's Lancashire branch.[8] The theory of Moleyns' authorship of the poem is now rejected by most historians and scholars.[9]
An active partisan of the unpopular William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, Moleyns was lynched in Portsmouth by discontented unpaid soldiers on 9 January 1450.[3][10]
Notes
Citations
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- ↑ Paleography Exercises A document of Adam Moleyns accessed on 25 August 2007
- ↑ Priests of Kempsey accessed on 25 August 2007. Archived 2009-10-24.
- ↑ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 239
- ↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 95
- ↑ Bexhill Museum The History Of Bexhill Template:Webarchive accessed on 25 August 2007
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- ↑ Alessandra Petrina, Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of 2004:216 and note
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- ↑ Smith "Moleyns, Adam (d. 1450)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ Michael Miller The Wars of the Roses chapter 37 accessed on 25 August 2007;Steven Muhlberger Beginning of the Wars of the Roses Template:Webarchive accessed on 25 August 2007;The Royal Garrison Church Template:Webarchive accessed on 25 August 2007
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References
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Further reading
- Reeves, A.C., Lancastrian Englishmen (Washington: University Press of America) 1981. One of five fifteenth-century careers outlined through documents.
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