Thomas Blunville (or Thomas de Blundeville; died 16 August 1236) was a medieval

Bishop of Norwich The Bishop of Norwich is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers most of the county of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. The bishop of Norwich is Graham Usher. The see is in t ...

Life

Blunville was a royal clerk and administered the see of Norwich after the death of the previous bishop,

Pandulf Verraccio Pandulf Verraccio (died 16 September 1226), whose first name may also be spelled Pandolph or Pandulph (''Pandolfo'' in Italian), was a Roman ecclesiastical politician, papal legate to England and bishop of Norwich. Early life Pandulf was born ...

. He was elected in October 1226 with royal assent to his election coming on 5 November 1226. He was ordained a priest on 19 December 1226 and was consecrated on 20 December 1226.British History Online Bishops of Norwich
accessed on 29 October 2007 Blunville was a nephew of

Geoffrey de Burgh Geoffrey de Burgh (; ; ; 1180 – 8 December 1228) was a medieval English cleric who was Archdeacon of Norwich (1200–1225), Bishop of Ely (1215–1219, 1225–1228) and the brother of William de Burgh and Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of ...

, the Bishop of Ely. Blunville died on 16 August 1236.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 261

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British History Online Bishops of Norwich
accessed on 29 October 2007 * Bishops of Norwich 1236 deaths Year of birth unknown 13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops {{England-bishop-stub