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A 19th-century illustration of the Black Prince. Edward is often referred to as the "Black Prince". [14] The first known source to use this sobriquet was the antiquary John Leland in the 1530s or early 1540s (about 165 years after Edward's death). Leland mentions it in two manuscript notes of this period, with the implication that it was in ...
The Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356 was a large-scale mounted raid by an Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edward, the Black Prince, between 4 August and 2 October 1356 as a part of the Hundred Years' War. The war had broken out in 1337, but a truce and the ravages of the Black Death had restricted the extent of the fighting since 1347.
The Black Prince's chevauchée, also known as the grande chevauchée, was a large-scale mounted raid carried out by an Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edward, the Black Prince, between 5 October and 2 December 1355 as a part of the Hundred Years' War.
Edward the Black Prince captures King John II of France, France plunged into chaos. 1364 Battle of Cocherel: France 16 May, near Houlbec-Cocherel, victory of Brittany-Burgundy-Gascony forces against Navarrese-English ones. 1364 Battle of Auray: England 29 September, end of Breton War of Succession Du Guesclin captured. 1367 Battle of Nájera ...
The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 between a French army commanded by King John II and an Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black Prince, during the Hundred Years' War. It took place in western France, 5 miles (8 km) south of Poitiers , when approximately 14,000 to 16,000 French attacked a strong defensive position held ...
Edward III's chevauchée of 1355 took place when King Edward III of England led an army into Picardy in the hope of provoking the French into a battle. Edward's son The Black Prince had begun a chevauchée on 5 October with an Anglo-Gascon force from Bordeaux heading towards Narbonne.
Between 1372 and 1380, Castilian corsairs raided the southern coasts of England with relative impunity, turning the tide in the Hundred Years' War decisively in France's favour. [2] The Black Prince's intervention in the Castilian Civil War, and the failure of Pedro to reward his services, depleted the prince's treasury.
19 September – Hundred Years' War: at the Battle of Poitiers, the English, commanded by the Black Prince, defeat the French and capture King John II of France in the process. [3] 1357. 22 March – Hundred Years' War: a two-year truce is declared at Bordeaux between France and England. [3]