Life

Blund's family was an important family in the city of Exeter, as his brother Hilary was mayor of Exeter twice, from 1224 to 1230 and from about 1234 to 1235. Because Richard is given the title of magister or master, it is assumed that he attended a university, but which one is unknown. He was a canon of Exeter Cathedral.

Blund was elected about 30 January 1245 and consecrated on 22 October 1245. He was consecrated at Reading

Reading, Berkshire

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 by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

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, Boniface of Savoy. Little is known of his activities as bishop, although the medieval chronicler Matthew Paris

Matthew Paris

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 considered him a good choice for bishop.

Blund died on 26 December 1257. After his death, a number of his clerks used his seal to forge letters giving away the bishop's property and awarding benefices.

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• George Oliver
  George Oliver (historian)
  George Oliver was an English Roman Catholic priest and historian of the Exeter area.-Life:He was born at Newington, Surrey, on 9 February 1781, and was educated, first at Sedgley Park School, Staffordshire, and afterwards at Stonyhurst College...
  
  , Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, entry for Richard