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- Katherine
Katherine,
I have just read on Roger Bacon in my favorite ’1860 French dictionary. Only now I can tell you that I totally agree with your approach…..I am sure that Simon had many affinities with this famous scholar. Simon’s son Amaury must have had exceptional mentors, Adam Marsh and even Roger Bacon. In my source, they say that Roger Bacon even preached against king Henry’s political friends in 1259!
” Apres avoir obtenu le grade de docteur en theologie, il revint, dit-on en Angleterre, et entra dans l’ordre de Saint Francois, par le conseil du savant Robert Greathead ou Grosseteste, eveque de Lincoln, qui l’honorait de sa bienviellance et de sa protection. Le frere Roger se fit d’abord connaitre en 1259 par un sermon qu’il prononca a Oxford devant Henri III. Il y censura le roi de ce qu’il deferait trop aux avis de Pierre, eveque de Winchester et de ce qu’il donnait les premiers emplois du royaume a des etrangers “