Peter Quinel

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| name = Peter Quinel | image = Arms PeterQuinel BishopOfExeter Died1291.svg | caption = Arms of Peter Quinel, Bishop of Exeter: ''Azure, a cross argent between two roses in chief and two fleurs-de-lys in base or''<ref>Izacke, Richard (c.1624–1698), (improved and continued to the year 1724 by Samuel Izacke), ''Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter'', 3rd Edition, London, 1731, ''A Perfect Catalogue of all the Bishops of this Church ... together with the Coats of Armory and Mottoes Described'', pp.25-50 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q29bAAAAQAAJ&dq=horton+arms+bends+engrailed+canton&pg=PA262][https://archive.org/details/remarkableantiq00izacgoog/page/n42/mode/2up]</ref> | religion = Catholic | title = Bishop of Exeter | elected = between 7 August and 7 October 1280 | consecration = 10 November 1280 | consecrated_by = Richard of Gravesend | ended = October 1291 | predecessor = Walter Branscombe | successor = Thomas Bitton | other_post = Archdeacon of St David's | birth_date = {{circa|1230}} | death_date = October {{dya|1291|1230}} | buried = Exeter Cathedral }}

'''Peter Quinel'''{{efn|Or '''Peter de Quivel''', or '''Quivil'''<ref name=DNB/>}} ({{circa| 1230–1291}}) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter. He became a canon of Exeter Cathedral in 1276 and his episcopate began in 1280 and continued until he died in 1291. He issued a set of rules governing the clergy in his diocese and the required furnishing of churches and continued the rebuilding efforts at Exeter Cathedral.

==Life== thumb|Peter Quinel's tomb slab Quinel was born about 1230, to Peter Quinel and his wife Helewis. He may have been educated at a university, because in 1262 he was given the title of master, which implies a university education.

Quinel had the office of archdeacon of St David's in 1263, and later became a canon of Exeter Cathedral in 1276.<ref name=DNB>Orme "Quinil, Peter" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref>

Quinel was elected between 7 August and 7 October 1280 and consecrated on 10 November 1280.<ref name=Handbook246/> His consecration took place at Canterbury Cathedral and was performed by Richard of Gravesend who was Bishop of London.<ref name=DNB/>

While bishop, Quinel legislated that clerics' clothes should be all one colour,<ref name=Moorman149>Moorman ''Church Life'' p. 149</ref> gave detailed lists of the required furnishings of a church,<ref name=Moorman229>Moorman ''Church Life'' p. 229</ref> and ordered that any uneducated clergy should be deprived of office.<ref name=Moorman231>Moorman ''Church Life'' p. 231</ref> These were part of a set of statutes that Quinel issued in 1287 for his diocese.<ref name=Moorman238>Moorman ''Church Life'' p. 238</ref> He also continued the rebuilding efforts at Exeter Cathedral, and was generally credited with deciding to rework the cathedral along Gothic lines.<ref name=DNB/>

Quinel died in October 1291, probably on the 1st.<ref name=Handbook246>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 246</ref> He was buried in the lady chapel in his cathedral, where his tomb slab is still extant.<ref name=DNB/>

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==References== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} * {{cite book |author=Moorman, John R. H. |author-link= John Moorman |title= Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century |year=1955|edition=Revised |publisher= Cambridge University Press |location= Cambridge |oclc= 213820968 }} * {{cite encyclopedia |author=Orme, Nicholas |author-link= Nicholas Orme |encyclopedia= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |title= Quinil, Peter (c. 1230–1291) |url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22969 |access-date=12 April 2008 |edition=May 2005 revised |year=2004 |publisher= Oxford University Press |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/22969 |format = |url-access= subscription }} {{ODNBsub}} {{refend}}

==External links== * "[https://web.archive.org/web/20071025151803/http://www.dsnell.zynet.co.uk/Oliver/13.html Entry for Peter Quinel]" in George Oliver's ''Lives of the Bishops of Exeter''

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-bef | before = Walter Branscombe }} {{s-ttl | title = Bishop of Exeter | years =1280–1291 }} {{s-aft | after = Thomas Bitton}} {{s-end}}

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