Adam Easton was an English 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 is known to have accompanied Simon Langham to Rome, then Montefiascone and Avignon and he held the post of socius in Langham's household. Being a man of learning and ability, he obtained a post in the Curia.

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  • Adam Easton was an English 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 is known to have accompanied Simon Langham to Rome, then Montefiascone and Avignon and he held the post of socius in Langham's household. Being a man of learning and ability, he 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, on 21 December, 1381. On 7 March, 1381 or 1382, he was nominated Dean of York. In 1385 he was imprisoned at Nocera in Campania by Urban on a charge of conspiring with five other cardinals against the pope and was deprived of his cardinalate and deanery. With his fellow captives he was dragged across Italy arriving at Genoa in autumn 1385. Here the others were put to death but Adam was spared through the personal intervention of Richard II. The next pope, Boniface IX, restored his cardinalate 18 December, and granted him the honorary title of Cardinal Priest of S. Cecilia in 1389. It has been suggested that for a time Easton returned to England, however there is no evidence for this suggestion. In fact had he done so he would almost certainly have been imprisoned by Richard II with whom he was disputing the rights to a number of benefices in England. It is true that he retained benefices in England throughout this period, including Somersham, the deanery of York and a prebend in Salisbury Cathedral, which he subsequently exchanged for the living of Heygham in Norfolk. 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 structured attack on a Perugian detractor, 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 and became director to Catherine of Siena, whose confessor and executor was William Flete, the Cambridge-educated Augustinian Hermit of Lecceto, and to Chiara Gambacorta. Easton's Defense of St Birgitta echoes Alfonso of Jaen's Epistola Solitarii, and William Flete's Remedies against Temptations, all of which appear in Julian's text. He died at Rome, 15 September (according to others, 20 October) 1397.
  • Adam Easton O.S.B. var en av Den katolske kirkes kardinaler. Han hadde antagelig ledsaget erkebiskop Simon Langham til Roma, og da han først var der ble han på grunn av sine evner og kunnskaper engasjert i Den romeske kurie. Han ble kreert til kardinal 21. desember 1381 av pave Urban VI. Han konspirerte mot pave Urban sammen med kardinalene Giovanni de Amelia, Ludovico Donato, Gentile de Sangro, Bartolomeo de Coturno og Marino Giudice. De ble fengslet på borgen i Nocera Umbria den 12. januar. Kardinal Easton ble satt fri, men de øvrige ble henrettet i Genova i desember 1385. Men han ble fratatt kardinalsverdigheten. Senere ble han gjeninnsatt som kardinal, av pave Bonifatius IX den 18. desember 1389. Han dro da for en tid til England. Ingen av hans mange verker er blitt bevart.
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  • Adam Easton was an English 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 is known to have accompanied Simon Langham to Rome, then Montefiascone and Avignon and he held the post of socius in Langham's household. Being a man of learning and ability, he obtained a post in the Curia.
  • Adam Easton O.S.B. var en av Den katolske kirkes kardinaler. Han hadde antagelig ledsaget erkebiskop Simon Langham til Roma, og da han først var der ble han på grunn av sine evner og kunnskaper engasjert i Den romeske kurie. Han ble kreert til kardinal 21. desember 1381 av pave Urban VI. Han konspirerte mot pave Urban sammen med kardinalene Giovanni de Amelia, Ludovico Donato, Gentile de Sangro, Bartolomeo de Coturno og Marino Giudice. De ble fengslet på borgen i Nocera Umbria den 12.
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