John the Chanter

John the Chanter
Bishop of Exeter
Appointed	before October 1186
Term ended	1 June 1191
Predecessor	Bartholomew Iscanus
Successor	Henry Marshal
Orders
Consecration	5 October 1186
Personal details
Died	1 June 1191
Buried	Exeter Cathedral
Denomination	Catholic

John the Chanter (died 1191) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.

Life

John's exact background is unclear. He may be the same person as the John Planeta who was a clerk of Thomas Becket's during Becket's exile, but the connection is not proven. All that is known is that he was elderly when he was consecrated.^[1]

John was consecrated on 5 October 1186.^[2] He was present at King Richard I's coronation.^[1]

John died on 1 June 1191.^[2] He is buried in Exeter Cathedral, where his tomb survives.^[3]

Citations

1 2 Barlow "John the Chanter" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1 2 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 246
↑ "John the Chanter's tomb in Exeter Cathedral" Exeter Cathedral

References

Barlow, Frank (2004). "John the Chanter (d. 1191)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (May 2007 revised ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/94378. Retrieved 11 April 2008.
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.
"John the Chanter's tomb in Exeter Cathedral". Exeter Cathedral. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007. Retrieved 26 October 2007.

External links

"Entry for John" in George Oliver's Lives of the Bishops of Exeter

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bartholomew Iscanus	Bishop of Exeter 1186–1191	Succeeded by Henry Marshal

Bishops of Exeter

High Medieval	see removed from Crediton 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

Early modern	John Arundel Hugh Oldham John Vesey Myles Coverdale John Vesey James Turberville William Alley William Bradbridge John Woolton Gervase Babington William Cotton Valentine Cary Joseph Hall Ralph Brownrigg John Gauden Seth Ward Anthony Sparrow Thomas Lamplugh Sir Jonathan Trelawney Bt Ofspring Blackall Lancelot Blackburne Stephen Weston Nicholas Clagett George Lavington Frederick Keppel John Ross William Buller Reginald Courtenay

Late modern	John Fisher George Pelham William Carey Christopher Bethell Henry Phillpotts Frederick Temple Edward Bickersteth Herbert Edward Ryle Archibald Robertson Lord William Cecil Charles Curzon Robert Mortimer Eric Mercer Hewlett Thompson Michael Langrish John Ford (acting) Nick McKinnel (acting) Robert Atwell

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