People/Characters Adam Orleton
Works (8)
- The Lily and the Lion by Maurice Druon
- The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330 by Ian Mortimer
- The Death of a King by P. C. Doherty
- Edward II by Seymour Phillips
- The Knight and the Rose by Isolde Martyn
- Edward II by Harold F. Hutchison
- King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath 1284-1330 by Roy Martin Haines
- The church and politics in fourteenth-century England : the career of Adam Orleton, c. 1275-1345 by Roy Martin Haines
Description
| Description | Adam Orleton (c. 1275-1345), English clergyman. We know almost nothing of his early history except that he was a doctor of canon law by 1307. Apparently highly skilled, he served both the clergy and the secular government, and was appointed Bishop of Hereford in 1317. He fell out with King Edward II (reigned 1307-1327) and preached for Edward's deposition. Once Edward was gone, he was translated to be Bishop of Worcester, then in 1333 translated again to the rich bishopric of Winchester. He went blind by about 1340. He has a very bad reputation as a political schemer, but most of this is due to the writings of one chronicler; we know little of his actual character. Adam Orleton in Wikipedia |