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,
Edmund Mortimer (1376-1409) and her daughters brought to London, where they were held in custody. In 1413 she and two of her daughters were buried at St Swithin, London Stone. Events in the life of Sir Edmund Mortimer were dramatised by Shakespeare in Henry IV, Part 1. In the play Shakespeare accurately identifies him as Hotspur's brother-in-law, but simultaneously conflates him with his nephew by referring to him as 'Earl of March'. Edmund Mortimer (1376-1409) Sir Edmund Mortimer IV (10 December 1376 – January 1409) was an English nobleman, landowner and rebel who played a part in the rebellions of the Welsh leader