Adam Moleyns
| Adam Moleyns | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Chichester | |
| Appointed | 24 September 1445 |
| Term ended | 9 January 1450 |
| Predecessor | Richard Praty |
| Successor | Reginald Pecock |
| Other posts | 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 |
Adam Moleyns (or Adam Molyens, Adam Molens, Adam Molins, Adam Molyneaux, Adam Molyneux, Adam de Moleyns; 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]
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Life
Moleyns had the living of Kempsey from 1433.[2] He was Dean of Salisbury. 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]
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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 239
- ↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 95
- ↑ Bexhill Museum The History Of Bexhill 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 accessed on 25 August 2007;The Royal Garrison Church accessed on 25 August 2007
- ↑ 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
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.
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Lord Privy Seal 1444–1450 |
Succeeded by Andrew Holes |
| Catholic Church titles | ||
| Preceded by | Bishop of Chichester 1446–1450 |
Succeeded by Reginald Pecock |
