Click2Flicks - A Knight's Tale - Chapter 6

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>A KNIGHT'S TALE</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 6 - THE BLACK PRINCE</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">The eldest of <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0005.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Edward III’s</b></a> 14 children, Edward the "<a href="http://www.wales.ukf.net/blackpri.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Black Prince</b></a>" called <a href="http://www.oxlink.co.uk/wallingford/" target="_blank"><b>Wallingford</b></a> Castle <a href="http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid1cdroms/england/oxfordshire/wallingford/cityscape/castle/" target="_blank"><b>home</b></a>. An incredibly talented military commander who routed the French at <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0022.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Crecy</b></a> (thanks, in part, to the English long bow) and <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i3_0028.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Poitiers</b></a>, he often celebrated his conquests with jousts and tournaments. Sometimes he personally <a href="http://www.art-of-europe.com/images/dhm_462_small.jpg" target="_blank"><b>participated</b></a>. </p> <p>Although there is disagreement whether he actually wore black armor (hence his nickname), his shield of peace was predominantly black. At the end of his life, it was buried with him.</p> <p>A <a href="http://www.art-of-europe.com/images/dhm_463_small.jpg" target="_blank"><b>legend</b></a> in his own lifetime, the Black Prince was the most famous medieval warrior of his day. He could be cruel. But "<a href="http://encyclozine.com/History/Chivalry/" target="_blank"><b>chivalry</b></a>" to a knight of the Middle Ages did not necessarily mean "chivalrous" as that term is used today.</p> <p>Born in 1330, reportedly at <a href="http://www.homefarmhouse.co.uk/woodstock.html" target="_blank"><b>Woodstock</b></a> in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/"><b>Oxfordshire</b></a>, the Black Prince was his father’s formidable military aide at the beginning of the Hundred Years <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/sceptred_isle/page/37.shtml?question=37" target="_blank"><b>War</b></a>. He even took the king of France to London where he held him hostage at the <a href="http://www.toweroflondontour.com/tolarea.html" target="_blank"><b>Tower of London</b></a>.</p> <p>During a battle in Spain, in 1376, the Black Prince became ill. He never recovered. Requesting that his body be <a href="http://www.siue.edu/CHAUCER/canterbury.htm" target="_blank"><b>buried</b></a> (scroll right then down to see his tomb) at <a href="http://www.hillside.co.uk/articles/cath.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Canterbury Cathedral</b></a>, he wrote a Will the day before he died in 1376. The only example of his <a href="http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/millennium/images/treaty_prince_annuity_big.jpg" target="_blank"><b>handwriting</b></a> that survives, however, is an annuity he granted in 1370. It contains his motto: "De par Houmout, Ich Dene" ("by high courage I serve.")</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/images/richard-II_lrg.jpg"><b>Richard II</b></a>, son of Edward the <a href="http://ntap.k12.ca.us/whs/projects/history/blkprince.html" target="_blank"><b>Black Prince</b></a>, was only 10 years old in 1377 when he succeeded his grandfather, Edward III, as the new King of England.</p> <p>He did not serve with his father’s brand of courage.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="knight_tale_ch5.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="knight_tale_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="knight_tale_ch7.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>