John de Stratford

John de Stratford (c. 1275–1348) was a civil lawyer from Stratford-on-Avon who became Bishop of Winchester in 1323 and Archbishop of Canterbury in 1333. In 1326 he joined Queen Isabella against Edward II and urged the king to abdicate at Kenilworth. Under Edward III he was three times chancellor and the king's leading councillor.

His quarrel with Edward in 1340 helped establish that peers should be tried only in parliament. Reconciled, he died at Mayfield in 1348.