ROGER ‘of CONWAY’
(d.
1360
),
Franciscan friar
;
apparently a native of
Conway
. His name appears in the
Latin
records as
Rogerius
de Conveney
,
R.
Conewey Cambrensis
, and
R.
de Chonnoe
. The last is also the form of his name in the printed edition of his only extant work. He studied at
Oxford
, where he became
D.D.
He was brought up in the ‘custody’ of
Winchester
, but a diploma of
Pope Innocent VI
in
1355
granted him permission to live in the ‘custody’ of
London
. He is memorable in Franciscan history as the
author
of a tract entitled, in its printed versions,
Defensio mendicantium
, in answer to the tract
Defensis curatorum
by
Richard
FitzRalph
,
archbishop of Armagh
.
Roger
probably wrote his tract in
1357
, that is, two years after settling in
London
, and at a time when there was growing opposition to the
Franciscan
practice of poverty and mendicancy. The tract was first printed at
Lyon
in
1494
; it was reprinted in
Paris
,
1511
, and is to be found also in
M.
Goldast
's
Monarchia Sancti Romani Imperii
, iii.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
, and authorities cited therein;
-
Waddingus
Annales Minorum seu trium Ordinum a S.
Francisco institutorum … Editio tertia accuratissima
auctior et emendatior … Cura et studio sodalium eiusdem
Ordinis
, 1931
, 3rd ed. (vol. iii);
-
A. G. Little
,
Studies in English Franciscan History being
the Ford lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in
1916
, Manchester, 1917
, 113, 117.
Author:
John James Jones, M.A., (1892-1957), Aberystwyth
