Guillaume Adam
Guillelmus Adae (sometimes called William or Wilhelm Adam ) was a Dominican from Catalonia, who worked from 1314 to 1317 as papal missionary in Persia and later bishop of Smyrna ( 1318 ), Archbishop of Soltanije (Iran, 1322) and of Antivari (Montenegro, was appointed from 1324 ). In fact, he resided only temporarily in these episcopal sees; According to the sources, he was often to be found within the Papal Curia in Avignon.
He was one of six Dominicans who. Johannes XXII were sent to Persia; probably was Guillelmus there before 1314 have been during the pontificate of Clement V., ever. He says that he has come as part of his missionary work to India and the Gulf of Aden and beyond to Ethiopia.
Guillelmus is primarily known as the author of a treatise on the question of how the Holy Land after the fall of Acre recapture ( 1291 ) Let ( De modo Sarracenos extirpandi, probably 1317 ). He advocated a new crusade and praised in this context, the Genoese initiative in the Eastern Mediterranean: Genoa had, in addition to the occupation of Chios, with the consent of the Byzantine Emperor, also share in fighting against the Turks ( 1319 ); the most prominent of the participating Genoese, Martino Zaccaria, received for these services as " Marine Police " in the Aegean Sea from the Latin pretenders to the throne in Constantinople Opel the title "King and Despot of Asia Minor ." Guillelmus pleaded for restoring first the rule of the Roman Church over Byzantium and then attack the Turks in Asia Minor, before a strike against Mamlukenstaat in Egypt and Syria could be performed. To weakening of the Egyptian trade through Alexandria he even designed the plan of a blockade of the Gulf of Aden.
At several points Guillelmus describes aspects of slavery in the eastern Mediterranean. Thus, he claims, in Persia lived in his time, more than 200,000 Greek slaves. Sharp attacks was directed at those Christian merchants, especially Segurano Salvaigo from Genoa and his family, which supplied the Egyptian Mamluk slaves from the Black Sea region as new recruits for their armies.
Guillelmus Adae is referred to in December 1341 as already died some time.
Works
- De modo Sarracenos extirpandi
- Arbor Caritatis
- A sermon
The treatise Directorium ad passagium faciendum was also attributed Guillelmus because of the many content acquisitions and the textual near Kohler. Other researchers assume that it was written by Raymond Stephani OP. He is not sure of Burchardus de Monte Sion, as assumed in the earlier research.