Battle of Calais
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The Battle of Calais took place in 1350 when an English force defeated an unsuspecting French army which was attempting to take the city. Despite a truce being in effect the French commander Geoffrey
Geoffrey de Charny (left) and King Edward III of England (right)
The battle of Calais, from Froissart's Chronicles
Geoffrey de Charny, wounded and a prisoner of Edward III, after his attempt to take control of Calais (miniature from a manuscript of Fleurs des chroniques, late 14th century)
The keep at Guînes in 2007
Edward the Black Prince
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Edward of Woodstock, known as the Black Prince, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III of England. He died before his father, and his son Richard II therefore succeeded to the throne
Effigy of Prince Edward in Canterbury Cathedral
Edward III with the Black Prince after the Battle of Crécy (1788) by Benjamin West
15th-century illustration of Edward as a Knight of the Garter
1370s illustration of the Battle of Poitiers