James Berkeley

James Berkeley
Bishop of Exeter
Church	Catholic
See	Diocese of Exeter
In Office	1326–1327
Predecessor	Walter de Stapledon
Successor	John Godeley
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. 'The Register of John de Grandisson' as quoted in Coulton's Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation

Notes

^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 246

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

Persondata
Name	Berkeley, James
Alternative names
Short description	Bishop of Exeter
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	24 June 1327
Place of death