ANST - Black Knight?
Tamlin
uriel at airmail.net
Fri Jan 7 20:42:53 PST 2000
OK...enough is enough... 1066 indeed (ha-rumph) go to britannica.com to see the
rest of this article:
Edward The Black Prince
b. June 15, 1330, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Eng.
d. June 8, 1376, Westminster, near London
also called EDWARD OF WOODSTOCK, PRINCE D'AQUITAINE, PRINCE OF WALES, DUKE OF
CORNWALL, EARL OF CHESTER, son and heir apparent of Edward III of England and
one of the outstanding commanders during the Hundred Years' War, winning his
major victory at the Battle of Poitiers (1356). His sobriquet, said to have
come from his wearing black armour, has no contemporary justification and is
found first in Richard Grafton's Chronicle of England (1568).
Edward was created Earl of Chester (March 1333), Duke of Cornwall (February
1337)--the first appearance of this rank in England--and Prince of Wales (May
1343);
he was Prince of Aquitaine from 1362 to 1372. His first campaign was served
under his
father in northern France (1346-47), and at the Battle of Crécy (Aug. 26, 1346)
he won
both his spurs and the famous ostrich plumes and with them the mottoes used by
himself and subsequent princes of Wales, homout; ich dene ("Courage; I serve";
the
words are here spelled as Edward himself wrote them; later variants include
houmout
and ich dien or ich diene). One of the original Knights of the Garter, he was
sent to
France with independent command in 1355, winning his most famous victory over
the
French at Poitiers on Sept. 19, 1356.
-Tamlin
Baronman at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/7/2000 7:31:43 AM Central Standard Time,
> celestria_ledragon at yahoo.com writes:
>
> << Does anyone know who the Black Knight was and where he
> was from? I want to do some research on him but I dont
> know where to start.
> >>
> How about "The Black Prince" ? Didn't he have something to do with William
> about 1066ad.
> Bors
>
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