Thomas Merke
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Thomas Merke
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Thomas Merke was an English priest and Bishop of Carlisle from 1397 to 1400. Educated at Oxford University, Merke became a Benedictine monk at Westminster Abbey and was consecrated bishop about 23 April 1397. He served Richard II as ambassador to various German princes in 1397, was one of the commissioners who negotiated the dowry of Isabella of Valois in 1398, and accompanied the king to Ireland in 1399. Merke supported Richard against the usurper Henry IV and in 1400 was imprisoned in the Towe
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Fourteenth-century Bishop of Carlisle
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