Edward III of England the Good Parliament were reversed. Edward did not have much to do with any of this; after around 1375 he played a limited role in the government of the realm. Around 29 September 1376 he fell ill with a large abscess. After a brief period of recovery in February 1377, the king died of a stroke at Sheen on 21 June. He was succeeded by his ten-year-old grandson, King Richard II, son of the Black Prince, since the Black Prince himself had died on 8 June 1376. The middle years of Edward's reign were a period of significant legislative activity.
William Devereux (died 1376/7) William Devereux (died 1376/7) William Devereux of Bodenham was a prominent knight in Herefordshire during the reign of Edward III, and an important member of the retinue of the Earls of Hereford. He is the ancestor of the Devereux Earls of Essex and Viscounts of Hereford. William Devereux was born about 1315, the second son of Stephen Devereux of Bodenham and Burghope and a woman named Cicely. Rising debt related to the terms of the Dictum of Kenilworth led his great-grandfather, Baron William Devereux, to financial arrangements permitting the alienation of Lyonshall Castle, the caput of the Barony. William Devereux's