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Geoffrey Blythe (died c. 1530) was the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.Blythe was born at Norton in Derbyshire (now part of Sheffield) 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.