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BL. ADRIAN FORTESCUE

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Knight of St. John, martyr, b. about 1476, executed 10 July, 1539. He belonged
to the Salden branch of the great Devonshire family of Fortescue, and was a true
country gentleman of the period, occasionally following the King in the wars
with France (1513 and 1522), not unfrequently attending the court, and at other
times acting as justice of the peace or commissioner for subsidies. He was
knighted in 1503 (Clermont; but D.N.B. gives 1528), attended the Field of the
Cloth of Gold (1520), and late in life (1532) became a Knight of St. John. When
Anne Boleyn became queen, Sir Adrian (whose mother, Alice Boleyn, was Anne's
grand-aunt) naturally profited to some extent, but, as we see from his papers,
not very much. The foundations of his worldly fortunes had been laid honourably
at an earlier date. He was a serious thrifty man pains-taking in business,
careful in accounts, and a lover of the homely wit of that day. He collected and
signed several lists of proverbs and wise saws, which, though not very
brilliant, are never offensive or coarse, always sane, and sometimes rise to a
high moral or religious level.

All of a sudden this quiet, worthy gentleman was overwhelmed by some unexplained
whim of the Tudor tyrant. On 29 August, 1534, he was put under arrest, no one
knows why, but released after some months. On 3 February, 1539, he was arrested
a second time and sent to the Tower. In April he was condemned untried by an act
of attainder; in July he was beheaded. No specific act of treason was alleged
against him, but only in general "sedition and refusing allegiance". The
attainder, however, went on to decree death against Cardinal Pole and several
others because they "adhered themselves to the Bishop of Rome". Catholic
tradition was always held that Sir Adrian died for the same cause, and modern
Protestant critics have come to the same conclusion. His cultus has always
flourished among the Knights of St. John, and he was beatified by Leo XIII in
1895.

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APA citation. Pollen, J.H. (1909). Bl. Adrian Fortescue. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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MLA citation. Pollen, John Hungerford. "Bl. Adrian Fortescue." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06146b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph P. Thomas.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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