He was created Prince of Aquitaine and Gascony in 1362, but his suzerainty was not recognised by the lord of Albret or other Gascon nobles. In 1360, he negotiated the Treaty of Brétigny. The year after Poitiers, Edward returned to England. This led to the Battle of Poitiers, where his army routed the French and took King John prisoner. He offered terms of peace to King John II of France, who had outflanked him near Poitiers, but refused to surrender himself as the price of their acceptance. ![]() The next year (1356) on another chevauchée, he ravaged Auvergne, Limousin, and Berry but failed to take Bourges. In 1355, he was appointed the king's lieutenant in Gascony, and ordered to lead an army into Aquitaine on a chevauchée, during which he pillaged Avignonet and Castelnaudary, sacked Carcassonne, and plundered Narbonne. He took part in Edward III's 1349 Calais expedition. In 1346, Prince Edward commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Crécy, his father intentionally leaving him to win the battle. He was created Prince of Wales in 1343 and knighted by his father at La Hougue in 1346. He was guardian of the kingdom in his father's absence in 1338, 1340, and 1342. ![]() Įdward was made Duke of Cornwall, the first English dukedom, in 1337. His reputation in France, on the other hand, was one of brutality. Edward nevertheless earned distinction as one of the most successful English commanders during the Hundred Years' War, being regarded by his English contemporaries as a model of chivalry and one of the greatest knights of his age. He died before his father and so his son, Richard II, succeeded to the throne instead. ![]() Edward of Woodstock, known to history as the Black Prince (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III of England.
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