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'Adam Easton' (13?? - 15 September, 1397) was an English Roman Catholic Cardinal, born at Easton in Norfolk.
He joined the Benedictines at Norwich moving on to the Benedictine Gloucester College, Oxford where he became one of the most outstanding students of his generation. He probably accompanied Simon Langham to Rome and, being a man of learning and ability, obtained a post in the Curia.
He was instrumental in the attack and subsequent condemnation of John Wycliff and supporting Catholic orthodoxy in England. He was made a Cardinal by Urban VI, probably in December, 1381. On 7 March, 1381 or 1382, he was nominated Dean of York. In 1385 he was imprisoned by Urban on a charge of conspiring with five other cardinals against the pope and was deprived of his cardinalate and deanery. The next pope, Boniface IX, restored his cardinalate 18 December, and granted him the honorary title of Cardinal Priest of St Cecilia in 1389, and for a time Easton returned to England, where he held a prebend in Salisbury Cathedral, which he subsequently exchanged for the living of Heygham in Norwich.
He wrote many works the most significant of which was a massive volume entitled the Defence of Ecclesiastical Power, supporting the position of the Catholic Church and damning Wyclif's theology as false and erroneous. This and a number of his other works still exist, as do some of the manuscripts of his library, which were shipped back to Norwich from Rome in six barrels, and he composed the Office for the Visitation of Our Lady. He effected the canonization of Birgitta of Sweden in 1391 with a document in which he defended women's visionary writings.
He may have been Julian of Norwich's spiritual director, editing her Long Text ''Showing of Love'' in the same way that Birgitta of Sweden's spiritual director, Alfonso of Jaen, edited her ''Revelationes'' .
He died at Rome, 15 September (according to others, 20 October) 1397.
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★ Website on Adam Easton
★ Essay on Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton
He joined the Benedictines at Norwich moving on to the Benedictine Gloucester College, Oxford where he became one of the most outstanding students of his generation. He probably accompanied Simon Langham to Rome and, being a man of learning and ability, obtained a post in the Curia.
He was instrumental in the attack and subsequent condemnation of John Wycliff and supporting Catholic orthodoxy in England. He was made a Cardinal by Urban VI, probably in December, 1381. On 7 March, 1381 or 1382, he was nominated Dean of York. In 1385 he was imprisoned by Urban on a charge of conspiring with five other cardinals against the pope and was deprived of his cardinalate and deanery. The next pope, Boniface IX, restored his cardinalate 18 December, and granted him the honorary title of Cardinal Priest of St Cecilia in 1389, and for a time Easton returned to England, where he held a prebend in Salisbury Cathedral, which he subsequently exchanged for the living of Heygham in Norwich.
He wrote many works the most significant of which was a massive volume entitled the Defence of Ecclesiastical Power, supporting the position of the Catholic Church and damning Wyclif's theology as false and erroneous. This and a number of his other works still exist, as do some of the manuscripts of his library, which were shipped back to Norwich from Rome in six barrels, and he composed the Office for the Visitation of Our Lady. He effected the canonization of Birgitta of Sweden in 1391 with a document in which he defended women's visionary writings.
He may have been Julian of Norwich's spiritual director, editing her Long Text ''Showing of Love'' in the same way that Birgitta of Sweden's spiritual director, Alfonso of Jaen, edited her ''Revelationes'' .
He died at Rome, 15 September (according to others, 20 October) 1397.
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★ Website on Adam Easton
★ Essay on Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton
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