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John Prideaux (MP died 1403)

English Member of Parliament (c1347-1403)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ39807393 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sir John Prideaux (c. 1347 – 1403), of Orcheton in Modbury, Devon, was an English Member of Parliament for Devon in October 1383 and February 1386.

Editorial summary

“John Prideaux (MP died 1403)” enters the record as english Member of Parliament (c1347-1403). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John, Prideaux and died can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1347, 1403, 1383, 1386—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1347. Its strongest next move is a source search built around John, Prideaux and died.
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Why this record matters

“John Prideaux (MP died 1403)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, John, Prideaux and died provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39807393. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1347, 1403, 1383 and 1386.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “John Prideaux (MP died 1403)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.