John Pycot
Dean of Exeter
About John Pycot
John Pycot was Dean of Exeter between 1280 and 1283.
Implicated in the murder of one of the Bishop of Exeter's men, Walter Lechlade, in the close of Exeter Cathedral on 5 November 1283 following a local feud, he was banished in December 1285 to a monastery.
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