{{distinguish|Richard Blund (archdeacon of Barnstaple)}} __NOTOC__ {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Richard Blund | image = Blason-losangé-or-sable.svg | caption = Arms of Richard Blund, Bishop of Exeter: ''Lozengy or and sable''<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 = {{circa|30 January 1245}} | consecration = 22 October 1245 | consecrated_by = Boniface of Savoy | ended = 26 December 1257 | predecessor = William Briwere | successor = Walter Branscombe | death_date = 26 December 1257 }}

'''Richard Blund''' (or '''Richard Blundy'''; died 1257) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.

==Life==

Blund's family was an important one in the city of Exeter, as his brother Hilary was mayor of Exeter twice, from 1224 to 1230 and from about 1234 to 1235. Because Richard is given the title of ''magister'' or master, it is assumed that he attended a university, but which one is unknown. He was a canon of Exeter Cathedral.<ref name=DNB>Barlow "Blund, Richard" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref>

Blund was elected about 30 January 1245 and consecrated on 22 October 1245 at Reading by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Boniface of Savoy.<ref name=DNB/><ref name=Handbook246/> Little is known of his activities as bishop, although the medieval chronicler Matthew Paris considered him a good choice for bishop.<ref name=DNB/>

Blund died on 26 December 1257.<ref name=Handbook246>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 246</ref> After his death, a number of his clerks used his seal to forge letters giving away the bishop's property and awarding benefices.<ref name=Moorman173>Moorman ''Church Life'' p. 173</ref>

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==References== {{refbegin}} * {{cite ODNB |author=Barlow, Frank |author-link= Frank Barlow (historian) |title=Blund, Richard |year= 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/94381}} * {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |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 }} {{refend}}

==External links== * "[http://www.dsnell.zynet.co.uk/Oliver/10.html Entry for Richard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026000521/http://www.dsnell.zynet.co.uk/Oliver/10.html |date=26 October 2007 }}" in George Oliver's ''Lives of the Bishops of Exeter''

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