James Berkeley (bishop)

James Berkeley
James Berkeley
Bishop of Exeter
Church	Catholic
Elected	5 December 1326
Term ended	24 June 1327
Predecessor	Walter de Stapledon
Successor	John Godeley
Orders
Consecration	22 March 1327
Personal details
Died	24 June 1327

James Berkeley (died 1327) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.

Berkeley was elected on 5 December 1326 and consecrated on 22 March 1327. He died on 24 June 1327.^[1] According to his successor John de Grandisson, his manors were destroyed and despoiled, and de Berkeley murdered, but it is not known how this was thought to have been done.^[2]

Citations

^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 246
^ 'The Register of John de Grandisson' as quoted in Coulton's Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation.

References

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Walter de Stapledon	Bishop of Exeter 1326–1327	Succeeded by John Godeley

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[Handbook246-1] Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 246

[2] 'The Register of John de Grandisson' as quoted in Coulton's Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation.

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Bishops of Crediton	Werstan (bishop at Tawton) Putta (bishop at Tawton) Eadwulf Æthelgar Ælfwold I Sideman Ælfric Ælfwold II Ælfwold III Eadnoth Lyfing of Winchester Leofric see translated to Exeter
High Medieval	Leofric Osbern FitzOsbern 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
Late Medieval	Walter de Stapledon James Berkeley John Godeley John Grandisson Thomas de Brantingham Edmund Stafford John Catterick Edmund Lacey John Hales George Neville John Booth Peter Courtenay Richard Foxe Oliver King Richard Redman
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