predecessor successor death_date birth_place religion title parents term article_title diocese name
john arundel rowland lee c. 1530 norton , derbyshire catholic bishop of coventry and lichfield william blythe & wife -lrb- née rotherham -rrb- 1503 -- c. 1530 geoffrey blythe
 diocese of coventry and lichfield geoffrey blythe
geoffrey blythe

geoffrey blythe -lrb- died c. 1530 -rrb- was the bishop of lichfield and coventry .
blythe was born at norton in derbyshire -lrb- now part of sheffield -rrb- to william blythe and a sister of thomas rotherham , archbishop of york .
he was schooled at eton and then entered king 's college , cambridge in 1483 .
he was ordained a priest on 4 april 1496 .
king henry vii entertained a high opinion of his abilities , and often employed him in foreign embassies .
he was special ambassador on 27 may 1502 to vladislas ii , king of hungary and bohemia , and on his return was rewarded with the bishopric of lichfield and coventry .
from 1512 to 1524 he was appointed president of the council of wales and the marches .
blythe 's elder brother john was bishop of salisbury , and bishops ' house in sheffield is said to be so-named because it was built for the brothers , though there is no evidence that they ever lived there .
