1352 Births - Rupert of Germany, Adam of Usk, Vidyapati, Viridis Visconti, Hac Bayram-I Veli, Elizabeth of Slavonia, Kwon Geun (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rupert of Germany, Adam of Usk, Vidyapati, Viridis Visconti, Hac Bayram-I Veli, Elizabeth of Slavonia, Kwon Geun, Ludovico Racaniello, Edigu, Thomas La Warr, 5th Baron de La Warr, Siemowit Iv, Duke of Masovia, Biordo Michelotti, John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles, Jan Appelmans. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Adam of Usk (Welsh: ) (c. 1352 1430) was a Welsh priest, canonist, and late medieval historian and chronicler. 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 practiced his profession for seven years as an advocate in the archiepiscopal court of Canterbury, 13901397, 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. H...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3532724