Late Middle Ages · Europe · Politics

1376

Death of the Black Prince

June 1376

Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of Edward III and victor of Crécy and Poitiers, died at Westminster of the dysentery he had carried for nine years. His ten-year-old son Richard now stood next in line for the English throne. The chivalric age had buried its golden boy a year before its old king.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1375: Catalan Atlas compiled in Majorca
After: January 1377: Gregory XI returns the papacy to Rome

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1375: Hongwu purges his own officials
After: June 1377: Edward III dies at Sheen

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Edward the Black Prince