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.
Robert Poyntz (died 1520) Thomas Poyntz (died 1501), an Esquire of the Body of King Henry VII at the baptism of his first-born son Prince Arthur, who married a certain Jane, the second wife and widow of Walter Devereux, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley(c.1432-1485), Knight of the Garter. The Poyntz family of Iron Acton were descended from John Poyntz (d.1376), a younger son of Nicholas Poyntz (d.1311), feudal baron of Curry Mallet in Somerset, by his second wife Matilda (or Maud) de Acton, aunt and heiress in her issue of John de Acton (died 1362) of Iron Acton. He married Margaret Woodville, the illegitimate