{{Use British English|date=July 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} {{short description|13th and 14th-century Bishop of Exeter}} __NOTOC__ {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Thomas Bitton | image = 150px | caption = Arms of Thomas Bitton<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> '''Blazon''' <div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left;">'''Escutcheon''': Ermine, a fess gules. <ref>{{cite book |author=Bedford, W.K. Riland |title=The blazon of episcopacy |edition=2 |date=1897 |page = 50 |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |URL=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Blazon_of_Episcopacy/3rBAAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1}}</ref> </div> </div> | religion = Catholic | title = Bishop of Exeter | elected = between 8 October and 30 November 1291 | consecration = 16 March 1291 | ended = 21 September 1307 | predecessor = Peter Quinel | successor = Walter de Stapledon | death_date = 21 September 1307 }}
'''Thomas Bitton''' (sometimes '''Thomas de Bytton'''; died 1307) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.
==Life== Bitton was the nephew of William of Bitton I, who was Bishop of Bath from 1248 to 1264.<ref name=DNBWB>Shaw "Button, William (d. 1264)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref> His brother was William of Bitton II, Bishop of Bath from 1267 to 1274.<ref name=DNBWBII>Shaw "Button, William (d. 1274)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref>
Bitton was elected between 8 October and 30 November 1291 and consecrated on 16 March 1292. He died on 21 September 1307.<ref name=Handbook246>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 246</ref> In his will, he left funds to give one penny each to 10,212 poor people.<ref name=Moorman206>Moorman ''Church Life'' p. 206 footnote 4</ref> He was also a benefactor of Dorchester Friary, Dorset.
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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 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 }} * {{cite ODNB |author=Shaw, David Gary |title=Button [Bitton], William (''d''. 1264)|year= 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4236}} * {{cite ODNB |author=Shaw, David Gary |author-mask=2 |title=Button [Bitton], William (''d''. 1274) |year= 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4237}} {{refend}}
==External links== * "[https://web.archive.org/web/20071026003541/http://www.dsnell.zynet.co.uk/Oliver/14.html Entry for Thomas]" in George Oliver's ''Lives of the Bishops of Exeter''
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