Adam Moleyns
Adam Moleyns | |
|---|---|
| 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),Bishop of Chichester,was an English bishop, lawyer, royal administrator and diplomat. During the minority ofHenry VI of England,he was clerk of the rulingcouncil of the Regent.[1]
Life
[edit]Moleyns had the living ofKempseyfrom 1433.[2]He wasDean of Salisburyfrom 1441 to 1446. He becamebishop of Chichesteron 24 September 1445, and was consecrated bishop on 6 February 1446.[3]He wasLord Privy Sealin 1444,[4]at the same time that he wasProtonotaryof the Holy See. In 1447 he had permission to fortify the manor house atBexhill.[5]
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]-TheBrut Chronicle
Moleyns was a correspondent of thehumanistAeneas 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 attributedThe 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 unpopularWilliam de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk,Moleyns was lynched inPortsmouthby discontented unpaid soldiers on 9 January 1450.[3][10]
Notes
[edit]- ^OrAdam Molyens,Adam Molens,Adam Molins,Adam Molyneaux,Adam Molyneux,Adam de Moleyns
Citations
[edit]- ^Paleography Exercises A document of Adam Moleynsaccessed on 25 August 2007
- ^Priests of Kempseyaccessed on 25 August 2007.Archived2009-10-24.
- ^abFryde, et al.Handbook of British Chronologyp. 239
- ^Fryde, et al.Handbook of British Chronologyp. 95
- ^Bexhill Museum The History Of BexhillArchivedOctober 6, 2007, at theWayback Machineaccessed on 25 August 2007
- ^John Silvester Davies, ed. (1856).An English chronicle of the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI written before the year 1471; with an appendix, containing the 18th and 19th years of Richard II and the Parliament at Bury St. Edmund's, 25th Henry VI and supplementary additions from the Cotton. ms. chronicle called "Eulogium.".The Camden Society.
- ^Alessandra Petrina,Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of2004:216 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
- ^Michael MillerThe Wars of the Roseschapter 37accessed on 25 August 2007;Steven MuhlbergerBeginning of the Wars of the RosesArchivedJuly 14, 2007, at theWayback Machineaccessed on 25 August 2007;The Royal Garrison ChurchArchived7 August 2007 at theWayback Machineaccessed on 25 August 2007
References
[edit]- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996).Handbook of British Chronology(Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN0-521-56350-X.
- Smith, Bill (2004). "Moleyns, Adam".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18918.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
Further reading
[edit]- Reeves, A.C.,Lancastrian Englishmen(Washington: University Press of America) 1981. One of five fifteenth-century careers outlined through documents.