Edward the Black Prince

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Edward the Black Prince

Legg inn av Gjest » 19 jan 2007 21:58:49

As I noted in an earlier post the DNB gives a wonderful summary of the
historiography of the appellation "Black Prince." Two other works give
more information. "The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince: from
contemporary letters, diaries and chronicles, including Chandos
Herald's Life of the Black Prince" edited and translated by Richard
Barber (Boydell Press, 1979). This work includes one of the two
contemporary chronicles for the life of Edward, Prince of Wales, the
Chandos Herald's chronicle. It does not use the phrase the Black
Prince. The title is given to the work, which in its original
manuscript form is untitled. It is poem of 4,000 words and dated from
1376 to 1387. The other major chronicle is by Jean Froissart,
"Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries from
the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry
IV" translated by Thomas Johnes (London, 1901, in 2 volumes). Volume
1:148-9 notes the following: "The reader will remark that Froissart
never once calls Edward, Prince of Wales, the Black Prince, nor makes
any allusion to the circumstance. This title first occurs in a
parliamentary record bearing date second year of Ricahrd II, and its
origin is involved in as much obscurity as the celebrated Prince of
Wales' feathers."

So, after examining these two works, it seems there is an obscure
record from 1379-80 that may use the appellation although no one cites
to it very clearly, either Froissart or the DNB. Otherwise, the
earliest recorded instance is early 16th century, 150 years after the
death of the Black Prince in Tudor times.

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