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John Pycot

Dean of Exeter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ6253592 ↗
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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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“John Pycot” enters the record as dean of Exeter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John, Pycot and Dean can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1280, 1283, 1285—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around John, Pycot and Dean.
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This entry incorporates text from “John Pycot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.