{{short description|14th-century Bishop of Exeter and Treasurer of England}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Thomas de Brantingham | title = Bishop of Exeter | image = Seal ThomasDeBrantingham Died1394 BishopOfExeter.png | alt = | caption = Seal of Thomas de Brantingham as Bishop of Exeter. The Bishop is the small standing figure below the enthroned king (Edward III or Richard II) | appointed = 5 March 1370 | term_end = 23 December 1394 | predecessor = John Grandisson | successor = Edmund Stafford | other_post = Lord Treasurer<br />Keeper of the Wardrobe | ordination = | ordinated_by = | consecration = 12 May 1370 | consecrated_by = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 23 December 1394 | death_place = | buried = Nave of Exeter Cathedral | nationality = English | coat_of_arms = |coat_of_arms_alt = }} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Thomas de Brantingham | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | office = Lord Treasurer | term_start = 27 June 1369 | term_end = 27 March 1371 | monarch = Edward III | predecessor = John Barnet | successor = Richard Scrope | term_start2 = 19 July 1377 | term_end2 = 1 February 1381 | monarch2 = Richard II | predecessor2 = Henry Wakefield | successor2 = Robert Hales | term_start3 = 4 May 1389 | term_end3 = 20 August 1389 | monarch3 = Richard II | predecessor3 = John Gilbert | successor3 = John Gilbert }}
[[File:BrantinghamArms.svg|thumb|Arms of Brantingham: ''Sable, a fess embattled between three Catherine Wheels or''<ref>Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.473</ref>]] '''Thomas de Brantingham''' (died 1394) was an English clergyman who served as Lord Treasurer to Edward III and on two occasions to Richard II, and as bishop of Exeter from 1370 until his death. De Brantingham was a member of the Brantingham family of North East England.
Edward III obtained preferment for him in the church, and from 1361 to 1368 he was employed in France in responsible positions. At an early stage in de Brantingham's career, de Brantingham served as Keeper of the Wardrobe.<ref name="Steel">Steel: 419</ref> He was closely associated with William of Wykeham, and while the latter was in power as chancellor,<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Brantingham, Thomas de |volume=4|page=431}}</ref> Brantingham was Lord Treasurer to Edward III (from 1369 to 1371), and on two later occasions to Richard II (from 1377 to 1381; and in 1389),<ref name="Steel"/><ref name=Handbook105>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 105</ref> being appointed Bishop of Exeter on 5 March 1370 and consecrated as such on 12 May 1370.<ref name=Handbook246>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 246</ref> De Brantingham died in December 1394, probably on the 23rd,<ref name=Handbook246/> and was buried in the nave of Exeter Cathedral.<ref name="Surtees"/>
==Administrator== By 1349 he had been appointed as clerk of the exchequer. In 1359 he was cofferer responsible for finance during the French military campaign and from 1361 to 1368 he was Treasurer of Calais. On 27 June 1369 he was appointed treasurer of the realm, but as the war in France deteriorated, he, along with fellow clerics William of Wykeham, the Chancellor and Peter Lacy, Keeper of the Privy Seal, was forced by public opinion to resign. However, in 1370 he had been consecrated as Bishop of Exeter.
==Bishop of Exeter== While serving as bishop of Exeter, de Brantingham was petitioned by parishioners of "St. Tenion" (which, it has been suggested, may refer to Tinney Hall near Lewannick, Cornwall)<ref name="Yonge">Yonge, Record 107/915</ref> in the peculiar jurisdiction of St German's, concerning a suit carried on by them for eighteen years against the Prior and Convent of St. German's about permission for them to have their own chaplain.<ref name="Yonge"/> The petitioners sought de Brantingham's intervention to settle the dispute,<ref name="Yonge"/> although his decision is now lost.
==Personal life== A record of de Brantingham's death, dated 13 December 1394, notes that the bishop was to be buried in the nave of Exeter Cathedral and lists, among the beneficiaries of his will, Richard Brantingham and his wife, Joan (presumably de Brantingham's son and daughter-in-law).<ref name="Surtees">Surtees: 248</ref> Nor did De Brantingham forget the village of Brantingham, which had given its name to his family, bequeathing to the church of Brantingham a pair of vestments or one shilling.<ref name="Surtees"/> De Brantingham also left a book of decretals to each of Merton Hall and Stapledon Hall. De Brantingham's association with Stapledon Hall (now Exeter College, Oxford) pre-dated his death to his contribution of 20 pounds to the building of its library.<ref name="Surtees"/><ref name="Savage">Savage: 150</ref> As proof of his position in society, de Brantingham also remembered in (or had as a witness to) his will William Hankeford, later Chief Justice of the King's Bench.<ref name="Surtees"/>
Richard Brantingham is recorded in the survey of Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, completed in 1382,<ref>Greenwell: vii</ref> as a "suiter" or lawyer, holding a half a burgage for life in Auckland and paying six pence for any omission, and one penny at the four terms.<ref>Greenwell: 165</ref> Bishop Hatfield granted a forest office to the valet of his kitchen, Walter Brantingham, presumably a relation.<ref>Holford and Stringer: 100</ref>
==External links== * [https://archive.org/stream/registerofthomas01hinguoft/registerofthomas01hinguoft_djvu.txt Register of Bishop Brantingham, archive.org]
==Citations== {{reflist|2}}
==References== * {{ODNBweb|id= 32787|title= Brantingham, Thomas|first= R.G.|last = Davies}} * {{Citation | editor-last = Greenwell | editor-first = William | editor-link = William Greenwell | title = Bishop Hatfield's survey | place = Durham | publisher = Surtees Society | series = Publications of the Surtees Society | year = 1857 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hgQVAAAAQAAJ}}. * {{Citation | last1 = Holford | first1 = M. L. | last2 = Stringer | first2 = K. J. | title = Border liberties and loyalties: North-East England, c. 1200 – c. 1400 | place = Edinburgh | publisher = Edinburgh University Press | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780748632787 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PSX0IzJGyhgC}}. * {{Citation | last = Savage | first = Ernest Albert |author-link = Ernest Albert Savage | title = Old English libraries | year = 1911 | publisher = Taylor & Francis | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SZkOAAAAQAAJ}}. * {{Citation | last = Steel | first = Anthony Bedford | title = The receipt of the Exchequer, 1377–1485 | place = Cambridge | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1954 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=goI8AAAAIAAJ}}. * {{Citation | title = North country wills | publisher = Surtees Society | series = Publications of the Surtees Society | year = 1908 | volume = 116 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vAQpAAAAYAAJ}} * {{Citation | last = Yonge family of Puslinch, Devon | date = n.d. | title = Records | url = http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=028-107&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 | publisher = Plymouth and West Devon Public Records Office }}. * {{cite DNBSupp|wstitle=Brantingham, Thomas de|first=Albert Frederick|last=Pollard}} * {{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 |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
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