sentences:  Stephen served as one of the three electors of the nine members of the council that Montfort set up after the Battle of Lewes in 1264.Bersted served with Montfort himself and Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester.By June 1276 he was back in royal favor, for King Edward I of England attended the ceremony held that month where Bersted oversaw the translation of the relics of Richard of Chichester to a new shrine.