Thomas Cobham was an English churchman, who was Archbishop-elect of Canterbury in 1313 and later Bishop of Worcester

Bishop of Worcester

The Bishop of Worcester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England. He is the head of the Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury...

 from 1317 to 1327.

He earned a Doctor of Theology and a Doctor of Canon Law. and served as Archdeacon of Lewes from 1301 to circa 1305. Cobham was nominated to replace Archbishop Robert Winchelsey

Robert Winchelsey

Robert Winchelsey was an English Christian theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury. He studied at the universities of Paris and Oxford, and later taught at both. Influenced by Thomas Aquinas, he was a scholastic theologian...

 in 1313, by the monks of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury

Canterbury

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. The election took place on 28 May 1313. King Edward II

Edward II of England

Edward II , called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed by his wife Isabella in January 1327. He was the sixth Plantagenet king, in a line that began with the reign of Henry II...

 intervened and petitioned the Pope to appoint the bishop of Worcester Walter Reynolds

Walter Reynolds

Walter Reynolds was Bishop of Worcester and then Archbishop of Canterbury as well as Lord High Treasurer and Lord Chancellor.-Life:...

. Pope Clement V

Pope Clement V

Pope Clement V, born Raymond Bertrand de Got was Pope from 1305 to his death...

 acquiesced and issued a bull dismissing the monk's election of Cobham on 1 October 1313 and instating Reynolds in his stead.

On 31 March 1317, Cobham was provided to the bishopric of Worcester, and was consecrated on 22 May 1317. Cobham, along with Archbishop Melton

William Melton

-Life:Melton was the son of Henry of Melton, and the brother of Henry de Melton. He was born in Melton in the parish of Welton, about nine miles from Kingston upon Hull. He was a contemporary of John Hotham, Chancellor of England and Bishop of Ely...

, and the bishops of London and Rochester

Hamo Hethe

Hamo Hethe was a medieval Bishop of Rochester. He was elected on 18 March 1317 and consecrated on 26 August 1319. He resigned the see in early 1352 before his death on 4 May 1352....

alone spoke up in Edward II's defense during the Parliamentary session that deposed Edward.

He died on 27 August 1327.