Thomas Barrett (bishop) explained
Thomas Barrett (Irish: Tomás Bairéad; died) was a fifteenth-century Bishop of Annaghdown.
Barrett obtained a papal provision to the see of Annaghdown on 17 April 1458 and acted as a suffragan bishop in the English dioceses of Exeter (1458; 1468–75) and Bath and Wells (1482–85).[1] [2]
According to Cotton, Barrett was also a canon of York Minster; holding the Prebendary of Laughton (1466–67).[3] [4]
Barrett died sometime after 1485.[1] [2]
References
- Book: Cotton, Henry . Henry Cotton (divine) . The Province of Connaught . Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland . 4 . 1850 . Hodges and Smith . Dublin .
- Book: Fryde . E. B. . Greenway . D. E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd, reprinted 2003 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X .
- Book: Jones . B . 1963 . http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32536 . Prebendaries of Laughton . Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541 . 6: Northern Province (York, Carlise and Durham) . .
- Book: Moody . T. W. . Martin . F. X. . Byrne . F. J. . Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II . 1984 . Oxford University Press . A New History of Ireland . IX . Oxford . 0-19-821745-5 .
Notes and References
- , Handbook of British Chronology, p. 331.
- , A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 324.
- , Prebendaries of Laughton, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, volume 6, pp. 64–65.
- , The Province of Connaught, p. 55.