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==Burials== {{Expand list|date=December 2010}} A full listing of monuments and transcription of inscriptions in the cathedral is contained in: [[John William Hewett (hymnist)|Hewett, John William]], ''Remarks on the Monumental Brasses and Certain Decorative Remains in the Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter, to which is Appended a Complete Monumentarium'', published in ''Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society'', Volume 3, Exeter, 1846β1849, pp. 90β138 [https://books.google.com/books?id=ybigAAAAMAAJ&dq=buller+3+demi+lions&pg=PA128]<br />Persons buried within the cathedral include the following: * [[Leofric (bishop)]], first [[Bishop of Exeter]] (1050β1072) * [[Robert Warelwast]], Bishop of Exeter (1138β1155) * [[Bartholomew Iscanus]], Bishop of Exeter (1161β1184) * [[John the Chanter]], Bishop of Exeter (1186β1191) * [[Henry Marshal (bishop of Exeter)|Henry Marshal]], Bishop of Exeter (1194β1206) * [[Simon of Apulia]], Bishop of Exeter (1214β1223) * [[Walter Bronescombe]], Bishop of Exeter (1258β1280) * [[Peter Quinel]], Bishop of Exeter (1280β1291) * [[Henry de Bracton]] ({{circa|1210}} β {{circa|1268}}), English ecclesiastic and [[jurist]] * Sir [[Henry de Raleigh (died 1301)|Henry de Raleigh]] (died 1301), knight * [[Walter de Stapledon]], Bishop of Exeter (1308β1326) * Sir [[Richard Stapledon|Richard de Stapledon]] (died 1326), knight, elder brother of Bishop Stapledon * [[James Berkeley (bishop)|James Berkeley]] (died 1327), Bishop of Exeter * [[John Grandisson]], Bishop of Exeter (1327β1369) * [[Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon]] (1303β1377) and his wife Margaret de Bohun (died 1391) * [[Thomas de Brantingham]], [[Lord High Treasurer|English lord treasurer]] and Bishop of Exeter (1370β1394) * Sir [[Peter Courtenay (d.1405)|Peter Courtenay]] (died 1405), fifth son of [[Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon]] * William Wilford (died 1413), Steward, Exeter Mich. 1396β7; receiver 1397β8; Member of the council of 12 1398β9, 1401β2, 1403β4, 1405β6, 1407β8, 1409β10, 1411β12; Mayor of Exeter 1400β1, 1402β3, 1404β5, 1406β7, 1408β9, 1410β11, 1412β13. * [[Edmund Stafford]], [[Lord Privy Seal]], [[Lord Chancellor]], [[Baron Stafford]] and Bishop of Exeter (1395β1419) * [[Edmund Lacey]], Bishop of Exeter (1420β1455), whose tomb had been a shrine, but which was walled over during the Reformation, fragments were uncovered during the [[Baedeker Blitz]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/24th-september-1955/10/a-forgotten-shrine|title=A Forgotten Shrine |first=D.John |last=Stephan|website=The Tablet| access-date=18 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085259/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/24th-september-1955/10/a-forgotten-shrine|archive-date=19 August 2014|url-status=dead| date=24 September 1955}}</ref> * [[John Speke (1442β1518)|John Speke]] (1442β1518) of [[Whitelackington]], Somerset and of Heywood in the parish of [[Wembworthy]] and of [[Bramford Speke]], Devon (buried in the ''Speke Chantry'') * [[Hugh Oldham]], Bishop of Exeter (1504β1519; buried in the ''Oldham Chantry'') * [[William Alley]], Bishop of Exeter (1560β1571) * [[William Bradbridge]], Bishop of Exeter (1571β1578) * [[John Woolton]], Bishop of Exeter (1579β1594) * [[William Cotton (bishop)|Dr. William Cotton]], Bishop of Exeter (1598β1621) buried in Exeter Cathedral. His monument with recumbent effigy survives. * [[Ofspring Blackall]] (1655β1716), Bishop of Exeter (1708β1716) buried on the southern side of the choir in an unmarked grave * [[John Ross (bishop of Exeter)|John Ross]] (1719β1792), Bishop of Exeter (1778β1792) buried in the south aisle of the choir, the place being marked by a flat tombstone and the inscription 'J. R., [[Doctor of Divinity|D.D.]], 1792.' * Bryan Blundell (1757β1799), Major General in the Army and Lieutenant Colonel of the 45th Regiment of Foot * Sir Gawen Carew * Peter (Pierre) of Courtenay (1126β1183), youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second Queen consort AdΓ©laide de Maurienne. * Sir [[Peter Carew]] ({{circa|1514}} β 1575) is not buried in the cathedral, but is commemorated by a mural monument. * [[George Knight-Bruce]], Bishop of Bloemfontein (1886β 1891) and first Bishop of Mashonaland (now Harare)(1891β1895) is commemorated by a memorial tablet. <gallery> CourtenayEffigiesExeterCathedral.JPG|Effigies of Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon, and his wife Margaret de Bohun SirPeterCourtenay(Died1405)BrassExeter.JPG|Rubbing from [[monumental brass]] of Sir [[Peter Courtenay (KG)|Peter Courtenay]], Exeter Cathedral, south aisle Peter Carew monument 2.JPG|Mural monument to Sir [[Peter Carew]], south transept Memorial to Bryan Blundell in Exeter Cathedral.jpg|Wall tablet to Major-General Bryan Blundell Esq, north east chapel Memorial to George Wyndham Hamilton Knight Bruce in Exeter Cathedral.jpg|Wall tablet commemorating George Knight-Bruce, first bishop of Mashonaland (now Harare) </gallery>
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