predecessor successor death_date death_place title type see term birth_date article_title name church
ralph baldock richard newport 18 december 1316 pons , poitou bishop of london bishop diocese of london 1313 -- 1316 1266 gilbert segrave
 gilbert segrave roman catholic
gilbert segrave

gilbert segrave -lrb- 1266 -- 1316 -rrb- was a medieval bishop of london .
he was the son of nicholas segrave , 1st baron segrave .
he obtained the living of kegworth , leicestershire in 1279 .
he was then , with a dispensation for plurality , given the livings of both harlaxton , staffordshire in 1282 and aylestone , leicestershire in 1292 .
he was elected to the episcopy on 17 august 1313 as bishop of london and consecrated on 25 november 1313 .
having obtained letters of safe-conduct from louis ix , his party started home through poitou early in september , in company with john du plessis and william mauduit .
the party was treacherously seized by the citizens of pons in poitou ; segrave died in captivity on 18 december 1316 .
