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ADAM See also:MARSH (ADAM DE MARISCO) (d. c. 1258)  , See also:English Franciscan, See also:scholar and theologian, was See also:born about 1200 in the See also:diocese of See also:Bath, and educated at See also:Oxford under the famous See also:Grosseteste . Before 1226 See also:Adam received the See also:benefice of See also:Wear-mouth from his See also:uncle, See also:Richard See also:Marsh, See also:bishop of See also:Durham; but between that See also:year and 1230 he entered the Franciscan See also:order . About 1238 he became the lecturer of the Franciscan See also:house at Oxford, and within a few years was regarded by the English See also:province of that order as an intellectual and spiritual See also:leader . See also:Roger See also:Bacon, his See also:pupil, speaks highly of his attainments in See also:theology and See also:mathematics . His fame, however, rests upon the See also:influence which he exercised over the statesmen of his See also:day . Consulted as a friend by Grosseteste, as a spiritual director by See also:Simon de See also:Montfort, the countess of See also:Leicester and the See also:queen, as an See also:expert lawyer and theologian by the See also:primate, See also:Boniface of See also:Savoy, he did much to See also:guide the policy both of the opposition and of the See also:court party in all matters affecting the interests of the See also:Church . He shrank from See also:office, and never became provincial See also:minister of the English See also:Franciscans, though constantly charged with responsible commissions . See also:Henry III. and See also:Archbishop Boniface unsuccessfully endeavoured to secure for him the see of See also:Ely in 1256 . In 1257 Adam's See also:health was failing, and he appears to have died in the following year . To See also:judge from his See also:correspondence he took no See also:interest in See also:secular politics . He sympathized with Montfort as with a friend of the Church and an unjustly treated See also:man; but on the See also:eve of the baronial revolution he was on friendly terms with the See also:king . Faithful to the traditions of his order, he made it his ambition to be a mediator .

He rebuked both parties in the See also:

state for their shortcomings, but he did not break with either . See his correspondence, with J . S . See also:Brewer's introduction, in Monumenta franciscana, vol. i . (Rolls See also:ser., 1858) ; the See also:biographical See also:notice in A . G . Little's See also:Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), where all the references are collected . On Marsh's relations with Grosseteste, see Roberti Grosseteste epistolae, ed . H . R . Luard (Rolls ed., 1861), and F . S .

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Stevenson, See also:Robert Grosseteste (See also:London, 1809) . (H . W . C .

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