ADAM of COURLANDON. — Liturgist, exegete, and moralist, born at Courlandon (Champagne), dean of the chapter of Laon from 1195, died at Laon in 1233 or 1234.
From 1213 to 1217 he was imprisoned by Enguerrand III, lord of Coucy, for defending the rights of the church of Laon. In 1219 he reformed the liturgy and promoted the codification of the usages of that church (Ordinary edited by U. Chevalier). Having resigned as dean (1223), he held the office of cantor. He wrote biblical commentaries (Acts, Matthew, Pentateuch, various Quaestiones) and many dissertations on moral theology. He dedicated his manuscripts (still unpublished, in the library of Laon) to Michael of Corbeil, archbishop of Sens, who had been his protector and predecessor at Laon.