William of Wykeham but he was pardoned by the new king Richard II in July 1377, weeks after Edward III died. (Richard was the son of Edward, the Black Prince, who had died in June 1376, a year before his father.) Under Richard II, William resumed his position as a royal councillor. Although he took the side of the Lords Appellant in their disputes with the king in 1388, he also managed to maintain good relations with the king, and served as Chancellor again from May 1389 to September 1391. After years of supporting poor scholars at Oxford University, he founded New College,
John Stourton (died 1438) (c. 1376–1406), daughter and heiress of William Banaster (d. 1395) of East Lydford, Somerset, widow of Robert Affeton. Their daughter, Cecily Stourton, married firstly John Hill MP, of Spaxton, son of Robert Hill (c. 1361 – 1423) of Spaxton, and grandson of Sir John Hill (died 1408) Justice of the King's Bench; secondly Sir Thomas Kyriell of Sarrecourt, Isle of Thanet. Before 1416, he married Alice Denys (or Peny) and had a daughter, Johanna Stourton, who became the wife of John Sydenham MP, of Combe Sydenham in Somerset. She inherited from her father the manor of Brympton d'Evercy, Somerset, later