Arundel was the son of Renfry Arundell, High Sheriff of Cornwall and was educated at the college of Canons Augustine in St. Columb and at Exeter College, Oxford.[1]
Arundel was appointed a Canon of Windsor in 1479,[2] a position he held until 1496.
After graduating with a Masters in Arts, Arundel was ordained and presented as rector to St. Columb Major. From 1482 to 1496 he served as Dean of Exeter and on 3 August 1496 was nominated as Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and consecrated on 30 November 1496.[3] He was translated to Exeter on 5 July 1502.
Arundel died in London in 1504[4] and lies buried in St. Clement's Church without Temple Bar.
^Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
^Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 254
^Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 247
References
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-56350-X.