The Grey Friars in OxfordLittle, A. G. (Andrew George)
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The Grey Friars in Oxford
Little, A. G. (Andrew George)
Franciscans -- Great Britain
27. =Thomas Rondel= or =Rundel=[1097] was lecturer at Oxford in the last
years of the thirteenth century, having previously read the sentences at
Paris[1098]. In 1309 he was one of the commissioners or inquisitors
appointed to hear the accusations against the Knights Templars; he is then
described as master of theology, and probably resided in the convent at
London[1099], where he was buried[1100].
28. =Adam of Howden= or =Hoveden= or =Houdene=[1101] was D.D. and probably
regent master of the Franciscans at Oxford in 1300. He was one of the
twenty-two friars presented by Hugh of Hertepol on July 26 of this year,
to receive the bishop’s license to hear confessions at Oxford, and was one
of the eight actually licensed[1102]. He afterwards read at Cambridge as
the twenty-ninth master of the Friars Minors[1103]. An ‘Adam de Houdene’
was chamberlain to W. of Gainsborough, Bishop of Worcester (1302-7), but
he was not a friar.[1104]
A sermon of his preached on the feast of Epiphany is in MS. Oxford,
New Coll. 92, f. 82 b[1105].
29. =Philip of Briddilton= or =Bridlington= was contemporary with Adam of
Hoveden, and like him was licensed as D.D. by the Bishop of Lincoln to
hear confessions in 1300[1106]. He responded in the schools to Master
Richard de Heddrington or Herington on the question ‘_an omnes beati
equaliter participant beatitudine_[1107],’ a problem which agitated
western Christendom in the early fourteenth century.
30. =Peter de Baldeswell=[1108] was at Oxford in 1300, when he was
presented by the Provincial to the Bishop of Lincoln, but not licensed to
hear confessions[1109]. He was not then D.D.
31. =John de Horley=, co. Oxon or Surrey (the same applies to him as to P.
of Baldeswell).
32. =Martin of Alnwick= was a member of the Oxford convent in 1300; he was
among the twenty-two friars for whom Hugh of Hertepol sought to obtain
license to hear confessions, and was one of those rejected. He was not a
D.D. at this time[1110]. He took his degree and lectured at Oxford between
1300 and 1311. In the latter year he was summoned to Avignon to take part
in the controversy between the Conventual and Spiritual Franciscans, as
one of the four advisers of the General Minister. The matter was tried by
a commission of cardinals and theologians; Martin and his fellows pleaded
the cause of the Conventuals, or Community of the Order. The case was
adjourned to the Council of Vienne and decided by the bull _Exivi de
Paradiso_ (which was published in the last session of the Council, May 6,
1313) in favour of the better section of the Conventuals[1111]. Martin of
Alnwick was evidently one of the leading Franciscans of the time.
According to Bale he died 1336 and was buried at Newcastle[1112].
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