Thomas Bitton
13th and 14th-century Bishop of Exeter
Thomas Bitton | |
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Bishop of Exeter | |
Elected | between 8 October and 30 November 1291 |
Term ended | 21 September 1307 |
Predecessor | Peter Quinel |
Successor | Walter de Stapledon |
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Consecration | 16 March 1291 |
Personal details | |
Died | 21 September 1307 |
Denomination | Catholic |
Thomas Bitton (sometimes Thomas de Bytton; died 1307) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.
Life
Bitton was the nephew of William of Bitton I, who was Bishop of Bath from 1248 to 1264.[1] His brother was William of Bitton II, Bishop of Bath from 1267 to 1274.[2]
Bitton was elected between 8 October and 30 November 1291 and consecrated on 16 March 1292. He died on 21 September 1307.[3] In his will, he left funds to give one penny each to 10,212 poor people.[4] He was also a benefactor of Dorchester Friary, Dorset.
Citations
References
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Moorman, John R. H. (1955). Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century (Revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 213820968.
- Shaw, David Gary (2004). "Button [Bitton], William (d. 1264)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4236. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- —— (2004). "Button [Bitton], William (d. 1274)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4237. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
External links
- "Entry for Thomas" in George Oliver's Lives of the Bishops of Exeter
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Preceded by Peter Quinel | Bishop of Exeter 1291–1307 | Succeeded by Walter de Stapledon |
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Bishops of Exeter
- Werstan (bishop at Tawton)
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- Ælfwold III
- Eadnoth
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- Leofric
- see translated to Exeter
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- William Warelwast
- Robert Warelwast
- Robert of Chichester
- Bartholomew Iscanus
- John the Chanter
- Henry Marshal
- Simon of Apulia
- William Briwere
- Richard Blund
- Walter Branscombe
- Peter Quinel
- Thomas Bitton
- Walter de Stapledon
- James Berkeley
- John Godeley
- John Grandisson
- Thomas de Brantingham
- Edmund Stafford
- John Catterick
- Edmund Lacey
- John Hales
- George Neville
- John Booth
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- Oliver King
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- James Turberville
- William Alley
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- John Woolton
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- William Cotton
- Valentine Cary
- Joseph Hall
- Ralph Brownrigg
- Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
- John Gauden
- Seth Ward
- Anthony Sparrow
- Thomas Lamplugh
- Sir Jonathan Trelawney Bt
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- Nicholas Clagett
- George Lavington
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