Thomas Vipont (died 1256) was a Bishop of Carlisle, England.
Life
Vipont was a member of the family of the lords of Westmoreland and attained a magister degree from the schools.Summerson "Chaury, Robert and Thomas Vipont" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography He was rector of GreystokeGreenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces): Carlisle: Bishops before he was elected bishop about September 1254, and consecrated on 7 February 1255.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 235 He was elected by the chapter of Carlisle Cathedral over the objections of King Henry III of England who had preferred that the chapter elect his chaplain John of Skipton. Henry did not push the issue, and Thomas was given the temporalities of the see on 24 December 1254. He died 14 October 1256.
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