James Berkeley was a medieval Bishop of Exeter

Bishop of Exeter

The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. The incumbent usually signs his name as Exon or incorporates this in his signature....

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Berkeley was elected on 5 December 1326 and consecrated on 22 March 1327. He died on 24 June 1327. According to his successor John de Grandisson, his manors were destroyed and despoiled, and de Berkeley murdered, but it is not known how this was thought to have been done. 'The Register of John de Grandisson' as quoted in Coulton's Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation