Thomas Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter. Brantingham Thomas King and council. Bishop...

Petitioners

Thomas Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter.

Name(s)

Brantingham, Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Bishop of Exeter

Nature of request

Brantingham requests remedy as Henry I granted the church of Plumpton to William, bishop of Exeter in perpetuity, and Brantingham's successors enjoyed rights of patronage in the church including providing the licence for the election of the prior, and of instituting them, and this was held until a dispute arose between the late king and the then prior whereby Bishop Grandisson was removed from the patronage, and the temporalities seized into the late king's hand. The prior was removed as an intruder and a new prior elected with the king's licence, the office now being vacant by that prior's death.1)

Nature of endorsement

Copy of a charter of Henry I to William, bishop of Exeter granting the churches of Plympton and elsewhere in perpetuity.2) Because the bishop was not a party to the earlier process it is agreed that a commission is sent to good men to enquire of this and certify in Chancery namely Beaumont, Brankescombe and Kendale.

Places mentioned

Plympton, [Devon].

People mentioned

John Granoson (Grandisson), Bishop of Exeter

Henry I, King of England

William [Warelwast], Bishop of Exeter

Adela of Louvain, Queen of England

William [of Corbeil], Archbishop of Canterbury

Robert, Earl of Gloucester

Thurstan, Archbishop of York

William [de Warenne], Earl of Surrey

Richard [de Belmeis], Bishop of London

David, Earl of Huntingdon

William [Giffard], Bishop of Winchester

Ranulph [le Meschin], Earl of Chester

Roger, Bishop of Salisbury

Roger, Earl of Warwick

Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln

Robert, Earl of Leicester

Everard, Bishop of Norwich

Hugh Bygot (Bygod), steward

Hervey, Bishop of Ely

William de Pirou, steward

Ralph [Luffa], Bishop of Chichester

William de Albuney (Albany)

Ranulf [Flambard], Bishop of Durham

Nigel de Albuney (Albany)

Robert [Peche], Bishop of Coventry

Richard Fitz Baldwin

Theulf, Bishop of Worcester

Baldwin de Redvers

Bernard, Bishop of St David's

Johellus de Bardstaple (Barnstable)

Richard de [Capella], Bishop of Hereford

Eudo de Cotteneys

Godfrey, Bishop of Bath

Robert Cadentona

Geoffrey [Rufus], Chancellor

William Fitz Eudo

Geoffrey, Bishop of Winchester

. . . de Pomerel

Osbert de Tavesocha (Tavestock)

Ranald de Valle Tocia

Tristan, Abbot of Tireburna

William Fitz Richard

Vincent, Abbot of Abingdon

Herbert de Alveto

Geoffrey, Abbot of Glastonbury

Humphrey de Bohun

William, Abbot of Cirencester

William Fitz Thurstan

[John] Beaumond (Beaumont), knight

Richard Brankescombe

[Richard de Chisledene]

Richard Kendale, escheator . . .

For the related pleadings, see rot 20 in KB 27/472

For a related petition by the same petitioner on the same subject, see SC 8/171/8548

For a related writ, see SC 8/171/8549

For a related petition see SC 8/215/10739

For further related pleadings see C 44/10/2

For a related inquisition possibly held in response to this petition, see SC 8/171/8550

• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. IV, 1-12 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1957), pp.40-1 (no.60) (calendar of this and related documents, with references)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.250 (commission to enquire of the rights of patronage and other matters to the church of Plympton)