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Adam Houghton (died 13 February 1389), also known as Adam de Houghton, was Bishop of St David's〔Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP40/483; Year 1381; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no483/483_0218.htm; third entry, appearing as Adam de Houton; 'Meneuensis' means 'St David's' 〕 from 1361 until his death and Lord Chancellor of England from 1377 to 1378. A Doctor of Laws and an advocate of the Court of Arches, he was also sent on missions to France for King Edward III. In April 1377, with the Caroline War going badly for the English, Edward sent Houghton to seek a peace settlement with Charles V of France, but in June Edward died, and Houghton was recalled. In 1380 he helped to negotiate the marriage of King Richard II to Anne of Bohemia. ==Early life== It was long reported, by a local tradition dating at least from the 16th century, that Houghton had been born in Dewisland, or the immediate neighbourhood of St David's, although from his name he is plainly of an English or Anglo-Norman family.〔William Basil Jones, Edward Augustus Freeman, ''The history and antiquities of Saint David's'' (1856), (p.303 )〕 There is a long-standing local claim that the farm of Caerforiog, in the parish of Whitchurch, Pembrokeshire, was his birthplace,〔Jones & Freeman, ''op. cit.'', (p. 232 )〕 and this is stated as a fact in the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'',〔 Glanmor Williams, ‘Houghton, Adam (d. 1389)’, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004), (online edition ), May 2008 (subscription required), accessed 4 Dec 2010〕 although Wilkinson's ''The Chancery under Edward III'' reports that there is "slender evidence" for it.〔Bertie Wilkinson, ''The Chancery under Edward III'' (1929), (p. 142 )〕 In 1856 a small medieval building survived at Caerforiog, then in use as an outhouse, which had a doorway with an ogee head, possibly dating from the 14th century.〔 He was educated at the University of Oxford, and by 1340 had graduated Doctor of Laws.〔W. H. Bliss, ed., ''Calendar of Papal Registers, Petitions'', vol. 1 for 1342-1419 (1896), p. 106; ''Calendar of Papal Registers, Letters'', vol. 3, p. 238〕 In 1338, an Adam de Houton, clerk of Oxford, was accused of wounding a man named John le Blake of Tadyngton,〔 and Anthony Wood thought it likely this was Houghton.〔Andrew Clark, ed., ''The Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, composed in 1661-66 by Anthony Wood'' (Oxford Historical Society, 1889-1899, 3 vols), vol. 1., p. 434〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Houghton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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