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,
William Devereux (died 1376/7) on 27 January 1377. He was buried at Hereford Cathedral. 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