John of Gaunt III's rule was becoming unpopular due to high taxation and his affair with Alice Perrers, political opinion closely associated the Duke of Lancaster with the failing government of the 1370s. Furthermore, while King Edward and the Prince of Wales were popular heroes due to their successes on the battlefield, John of Gaunt had not won equivalent military renown that could have bolstered his reputation. Although he fought in the Battle of Nájera (1367), for example, his later military projects proved unsuccessful. When Edward III died in 1377 and John's ten-year-old nephew succeeded as Richard II of England, John's influence strengthened.
Alice of Ibelin Lusignan (died 1395/97), titular Count of Tripoli, who married his first cousin Marguerite of Cyprus and had five children. Phoebus de Lusignan was Alice's great-grandson as an illegitimate son of Jacques' son, Pierre. It was through Phoebus that Alice's direct line continued. Alice's husband had an illegitimate son, Jean by his mistress Alix Gibelet. She died sometime after 1374. Alice of Ibelin Alice of Ibelin or Alix d'Ibelin (1325/1330 – after 1374) was the titular Princess of Antioch as the second wife of John of Lusignan. Alice was born between 1325 and 1330, the eldest daughter of Guy of Ibelin,