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,
Owain ap Dyfnwal (died 1015) Brian's Scandinavian forces—perhaps commanded by Sitriuc mac Amlaíb, King of Dublin (died 1042)—campaigned against various Cumbrian-controlled territories, and either the English population of Lothian or the western coast of Northumbria. Just the year before, Máel Coluim mac Cináeda (died 1034) succeeded a kinsman to become King of Alba. The twelfth-century pseudo-prophetic "Prophecy of Berchán" describes this monarch an "enemy of Britons", and within the same passage seems to refer to military actions against the islands of Islay and Arran. This source, therefore, may refer to events related to Brian's apparent overseas operations. It could also be evidence of competition in