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Adam of Usk ((ウェールズ語:Adda o Frynbuga)) (c. 1352 – 1430) was a Welsh priest, canonist, and late medieval historian and chronicler. == Patronage == Born at Usk in what is now Monmouthshire, southeast Wales, Adam received the patronage of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, who inherited the Lordship of Usk (Brynbuga) through his wife Philippa. Mortimer encouraged and enabled Adam to eventually study at Oxford, where he obtained his doctorate and became extraordinarius in Canon law. Adam settled at Oxford University as a teacher of law. Here by his own admission he was involved in armed struggle of 1388 and 1389 between the Northerners and the Southerners, which included the Welsh. Adam left Oxford and practised his profession for seven years as an advocate in the archiepiscopal court of Canterbury, 1390–1397, sitting on the Parliament of 1397 and in 1399 accompanied the Archbishop and Bolingbroke's army on the march from Bristol to Chester. These experiences and the connection with Thomas Arundel shaped his views thereafter, he was hostile in his chronicle to Richard II. He was a member of the commission appointed to find secure legal grounds for the deposition of King Richard II and met with the King during his captivity in the Tower of London. Adam was rewarded for his part in Richard II's surrender, imprisonment and fall with the living of Kemsing and Seal, and later with a prebend in the church of Bangor. These nicely supplemented his professional legal income and status. However one living, his title to the prebend of Llandygwydd in Cardiganshire given under the college of Abergwili, was to be contested by one Walter Jakes alias Ampney, who had obtained it by exchange in 1399. The two were in an affray, in Westminster, in November 1400, which resulted in charges being brought against Adam and his company, for highway robbery. The outcome is unknown, however it didn't immediately limit his legal activities, he continued as a lawyer. Adam was strongly devoted to Saint Teilo (associated with Llandaff Cathedral) and to Saint (presumably the Apostle) Thomas of India (whose cult had been vitalised by Dominican missions in Asia). 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 of Usk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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