Thomas Vipont (died 1256) was a medieval
Bishop of Carlisle
The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary (officer), Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York.
The diocese covers the county of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District. The Episcop ...
.
Life
Vipont was a member of the family of the lords of
Westmoreland but attained a ''magister'' degree from the schools.
[Summerson "Chaury, Robert and Thomas Vipont" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''] He was
rector of
Greystoke[Greenway ]
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces): Carlisle: Bishops
' before he was elected
bishop
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
about September 1254, and consecrated on 7 February 1255.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 235] He was elected by the chapter of
Carlisle Cathedral over the objections of King
Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of John, King of England, King John and Isabella of Ang ...
who had preferred that the chapter elect his chaplain John of Skipton. Henry did not push the issue, and Thomas was given the
temporalities
Temporalities or temporal goods are the secular properties and possessions of the church. The term is most often used to describe those properties (a '' Stift'' in German or ''sticht'' in Dutch) that were used to support a bishop or other religious ...
of the see on 24 December 1254.
[ He died 14 October 1256.][
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Bishops of Carlisle
1256 deaths
13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
Year of birth unknown
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