Around 1220 Bishop Walter Branscombe was born.
Around 1220 Bishop Walter Branscombe was elected Bishop of Exeter.
On 23rd February 1258 Bishop Walter Branscombe [aged 38] was elected Bishop of Exeter.
On 10th March 1258 Bishop Walter Branscombe [aged 38] was ordained priest and was consecrated Bishop of Exeter by Archbishop Boniface Savoy [aged 51].
On 14th April 1258 Bishop Walter Branscombe [aged 38] was enthroned Bishop of Exeter at Exeter Cathedral [Map].
On 31st October 1266 the Dictum of Kenilworth was issued. The Dictum was a peace agreement between King Henry III of England [aged 59] and the rebels who were besieged in the impregnable Kenilworth Castle [Map]. The committee included: Bishop Walter Branscombe [aged 46], Archbishop Walter Giffard [aged 41], Bishop Nicholas Ely, Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford, Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex [aged 62], Philip Basset [aged 82], John Balliol [aged 58], Robert Walerand, Alan Zouche [aged 63], Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley [aged 76], and Warin Bassingbourne.
Robert Ferrers 6th Earl of Derby [aged 27] and Henry Hastings [aged 31] were fined seven times their annual income. The Dictum, however, required the rebels to pay their fines before being restored to their lands; something of a Catch-22 since if they weren't restored to their lands, they would have no income to pay the fine.
On 21st October 1268 Bishop Ainan II was consecrated at Southwark Cathedral [Map] by Archbishop Boniface Savoy [aged 61] and Bishop Walter Branscombe [aged 48].
On 22nd July 1280 Bishop Walter Branscombe [aged 60] died at Bishopsteignton, Devon. He was buried in Exeter Cathedral [Map].