Danlyngrigge's estates, including the castle, were inherited by his son, John Dalyngrigge. Like his father, John enjoyed the favour of the king and was described as the "King's Knight"; in 1400 he was granted an annual allowance of 100 marks by the king. He died on 27 September 1408, leaving a will by which his property passed to his widow Alice during her lifetime. Since they had no children, at Alice's death (which occurred in 1442) it was to pass to John's cousin Richard Dallingrigge, son of Edward's brother Walter.The devolution of Sir John's estates is traced in 'The Borough of Brighton', in L.F. Salzman (ed.), A History of the County of Sussex, Vol. 7: The Rape of Lewes (VCH, London 1940), pp. 244-63, pp. 257-58, at notes 305-320 (British History Online). Upon Richard's death without issue in 1470, his brother William having died before him, he left the estates to Sir Roger Lewknor, son of Richard's sister Phillippe Dallingridge. (Phillippe had married Sir Thomas Lewknor of Horsted Keynes before 1417, and died in 1421; Sir Thomas, who made a second marriage, died in 1452.)D. Richardson, ed. K. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition (Salt Lake City 2011), III, pp. 18-19: with sources there cited. By this means, Bodiam Castle passed from the Dallingrigge into the Lewknor family.
