John Grandisson

John Grandisson
Bishop of Exeter
Seal of John de Grandisson, with legend S(igillum) Jo(han)nis Dei Gra(tia) Epi(scopus) Exoniensis ("seal of John by the grace of God Bishop of Exeter"); Inscribed in Latin beneath the seated figure: De Grandisono, with his arms below and disjointed arms of the See of Exeter at dexter and sinister.
Appointed10 August 1327
Term ended16 July 1369
PredecessorJohn Godeley
SuccessorThomas Brantingham
Orders
Consecration18 October 1327
Personal details
Born1292
Died16 July 1369
BuriedExeter Cathedral
DenominationCatholic
Arms of Bishop Grandisson: Paly of six argent and azure, a bend sable charged with a mitre upon a priest's stole between two eagles displayed argent. Grandisson's Psalter, British Library. These are his paternal arms with a difference of a bishop's mitre substituted for the third eagle
The John Grandisson Triptych, displaying on two small escutcheons the arms of Bishop Grandisson. British Museum

John de Grandisson (1292 – 16 July 1369), also spelt Grandison,[a] was Bishop of Exeter, in Devon, England, from 1327 to his death in 1369. Several works of art associated with him survive in the British Library, the British Museum and the Louvre in Paris.

  1. ^ Armorial General, By Johannes Baptist Rietstap, 1950, p.816


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