Adam Moleyns
Adam Moleyns | |
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Bishop of Chichester | |
Appointed | 24 September 1445 |
Term ended | 9 January 1450 |
Predecessor | Richard Praty |
Successor | Reginald Pecock |
Other post(s) | Lord Privy Seal (1444–1450) Dean of Salisbury & Archdeacon of Taunton (1441–1445) Archdeacon of Salisbury (1440–1441) |
Orders | |
Consecration | 6 February 1446 |
Personal details | |
Died | 9 January 1450 Portsmouth, Hampshire |
Adam Moleyns[a] (died 9 January 1450) 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]
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][6]
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]
Notes[]
- ^ Or Adam Molyens, Adam Molens, Adam Molins, Adam Molyneaux, Adam Molyneux, Adam de Moleyns
Citations[]
- ^ 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 Archived October 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine accessed on 25 August 2007
- ^ Michael Miller The Wars of the Roses chapter 37 accessed on 25 August 2007;Steven Muhlberger Beginning of the Wars of the Roses Archived July 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine accessed on 25 August 2007;The Royal Garrison Church Archived 7 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine accessed on 25 August 2007
- ^ Alessandra Petrina, Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of 2004:216 and note
- ^ Holmes, G.A. (1961). "The Libel of English Policy". English Historical Review. 76: 193–216. doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxvi.ccxcix.193.
- ^ Smith "Moleyns, Adam (d. 1450)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
References[]
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Smith, Bill (2004). "Moleyns, Adam (d. 1450)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18918. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
Further reading[]
- Reeves, A.C., Lancastrian Englishmen (Washington: University Press of America) 1981. One of five fifteenth-century careers outlined through documents.
- 1450 deaths
- Bishops of Chichester
- Deans of Salisbury
- Archdeacons of Salisbury
- Archdeacons of Taunton
- Lords Privy Seal
- 15th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
- Lynching deaths