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New livings - Hasselt
1394

By 1394 Adam was gradually building his portfolio of livings as he was appointed to more and more churches around Europe and in the process he started to accumulate considerable wealth. In the text below taken from The Segreto Archivo, the pope grants Adam the Church of Hasselt in Belgium which fell vacant when one of Adam's own courtiers died.

May your holiness also grant to your faithful servant Adam (cardinal priest of St Cecilia through your decree and also priest of the church of St Severus at Cologne - pictured above) the living of the diocese of Hasselt at Liege , the total earnings of which do not exceed 35 silver marks a year , which has fallen vacant through the death of Theoderici Bukelken , Adam's longstanding companion at the Roman Curia. May you also grant to him anything else which has fallen vacant through Theoderici Bukelkens death. May this be enacted by personal decree and dispensation. Given at St Peters , Rome , Nones of October, twenty first hour, fifth year (of Boniface’s reign)

Dignetur  sanctitas vestra devote creature vestre Ade tituli sancte Cecile presbyterio cardinali motu proprio de canonicatu et prebenda ecclesie sancti severini coloniensis necnon parochiali ecclesia in hasselt leodiensis diocesus  quorum fructus etc. trigintaquinque marcarum argenti secundam  communem extimatione valorem annuum non excedunt, vacantibus per mortem Theoderici Bukelken familiares sui continui commensalis in Romana Curia defuncti eciam si alias quovismodo  aut  ex alterius  cuiuscumque persona vacent eidem dignemini misericorditer providere, cum clausulis et non obstantibus ut in forma ac dispensatione cum eodem de gratia speciali. Fiat motu proprio et dispensamus. Datum Rome apud sancti Petri, nonas octobris vicessima prima hora anno quinto.

ASV Reg Suppliche vol 104A

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