Adam de Dompmartin (fl. later 14 th cent.)
Adam de Dompmartin (fl. later 14 th cent.) OM. French (Parisian) friar and the brother of Guillaume de Prato (who later was appointed archbishop of Cambalic in China on March 11 th , 1370). Adam entered the order in the French province. Reached the magisterium theologiae . Was then interrogated (30 September 1375) by other masters of the university regarding a translation of works by Marsilius of Padua. Between 1375 and 1381, he was provincial minister of the French province. On 20 July 1384, pope Clement VII nominated him for the episcopal see of Gubbio (Italy), yet Adam did not take up this position, as this diocese was also granted to Lorenzo Corvini by pope Urban VI. Nevertheless, Adam kept the title of bishop of Gubbio and received from pope Clement VII several privileges (to make up for this failed assignment?). Hence he received on 31 July 1384 papal permission to choose his own confessor and to hear confession from anybody who came to him for that purpose. He also received the power to bestow the doctorate in theology at the upcoming provincial chapter on any Friar Minor, as long as the candidate in question had spent the required time in a theology faculty, had taught the Sentences and was deemed worthy of the title after an examination by him and other Parisian masters of theology (an indirect way of creating additional magistri bullati ). On August 4 of that same year, the pope gave him permission to stay in the private room built with alms money by his brother, the archbishop Guillaume, in the Parisian friary. One manuscript of John of Wales’ Collationes in Evangeliam Johannis now kept in the library of Reims was in Adam’s possession (`Hunc emit frater Adam, episcopus Eugubinus, a magistro Johanne Sicardi, ordinis Minorum Avinionensium’ MS Reims, 168 [check!]