Walter Branscombe

Walter Branscombe
Bishop of Exeter
Arms of Walter Branscombe: Or, on a chevron sable three quatrefoils of the field two keys in chief and a sword in base argent[1]
Elected23 February 1258
Installed14 April 1258
Term ended22 July 1280
PredecessorRichard Blund
SuccessorPeter Quinel
Other post(s)Archdeacon of Surrey
Orders
Ordination9 March 1258
Consecration10 March 1258
by Boniface of Savoy
Personal details
Bornc. 1220
Died22 July 1280
BuriedExeter Cathedral
DenominationCatholic
Monument with effigy of Walter Branscombe, Exeter Cathedral. The effigy is contemporary with the bishop, but the chest-tomb and canopy were added in the 15th century to match the monument of Bishop Edmund Stafford (1344–1419) on the opposite side of the Lady Chapel

Walter Branscombe[a] (c. 1220–1280) was Bishop of Exeter from 1258 to 1280.

  1. ^ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.473: "Brounscombe, Bishop of Exon". The blazon contravenes the heraldic "Rule of Tinctures"


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