Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales

Also known as: Edward, eldest sonne to king Edward the third / Edward, the Black Prince · Family: England · Role: Prince of Wales · First appears: Richard II 1

Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, was the son of Edward III and the father of Richard II. During Richard II’s account, Walter Burley is named among those charged with bringing up the Black Prince, while William of Wykeham is said not to have been greatly favoured by him.

He was also reported to be the father of Roger of Claringdon, described as his base son. His siblings included Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, John of Gaunt, Edmund Langley, Duke of York, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, and William of Windsor.

Relationship record

Richard II 1

child: Richard II “RICHARD, the second of that name, and sonne to prince Edward”
parent: Edward III “prince Edward, called the blacke prince, the sonne of king Edward the third”

Richard II 33

child: Richard II (Prince Edward is identified as Richard II's father.) “He might (they said) call to remembrance, how his noble progenitour king Edward the third, his grandfather, and prince Edward his father had trauelled in heat and cold, with great anguish and troubles incessantlie, to make a conquest of France”

Richard II 37

parent: Edward III “the statute wherin Edward, the sonne of king Edward, great grandfather to the king that now is, was indicted in parlement”

Richard II 43

parent: Edward III “doctor Walter Burlie, who (as in the latter end of king Edward the third you haue heard) was one of the chiefe that had charge in the bringing vp of the Blacke prince, eldest sonne to the said king Edward.”
child: Richard II “afterwards the said prince committed vnto him the gouernance of his sonne Richard of Burdeaux”
mentor: Walter Burley “doctor Walter Burlie, who (as in the latter end of king Edward the third you haue heard) was one of the chiefe that had charge in the bringing vp of the Blacke prince”

Henry IV 10

parent: Edward III “He was base sonne (as was reported) vnto Edward, eldest sonne to king Edward the third, surnamed the blacke prince.”
child: Roger of Claringdon “He was base sonne (as was reported) vnto Edward, eldest sonne to king Edward the third, surnamed the blacke prince.”

Henry IV 16

with William of Wykeham (The Black Prince did not favor William of Wykeham.) “Yet the Blacke prince did not greatlie fauour him”

Henry VI 62

parent: Edward III “which Edward the third had issue, Edward prince of Wales”
child: Richard II “The said Edward prince of Wales, which died in the life time of his father, had issue Richard, which succéeded Edward the third his grandsire”
siblings with Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence “which Edward the third had issue, Edward prince of Wales; William of Hatfield his second sonne; Lionell the third, duke of Clarence; Iohn of Gant, fourth duke of Lancaster; Edmund of Langlie fift, duke of Yorke; Thomas of Woodstoke sixt, duke of Glocester; and William of Windsor seauenth”
siblings with John of Gaunt “which Edward the third had issue, Edward prince of Wales; William of Hatfield his second sonne; Lionell the third, duke of Clarence; Iohn of Gant, fourth duke of Lancaster; Edmund of Langlie fift, duke of Yorke; Thomas of Woodstoke sixt, duke of Glocester; and William of Windsor seauenth”
siblings with Edmund Langley, Duke of York “which Edward the third had issue, Edward prince of Wales; William of Hatfield his second sonne; Lionell the third, duke of Clarence; Iohn of Gant, fourth duke of Lancaster; Edmund of Langlie fift, duke of Yorke; Thomas of Woodstoke sixt, duke of Glocester; and William of Windsor seauenth”
siblings with Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester “which Edward the third had issue, Edward prince of Wales; William of Hatfield his second sonne; Lionell the third, duke of Clarence; Iohn of Gant, fourth duke of Lancaster; Edmund of Langlie fift, duke of Yorke; Thomas of Woodstoke sixt, duke of Glocester; and William of Windsor seauenth”
siblings with William of Windsor “which Edward the third had issue, Edward prince of Wales; William of Hatfield his second sonne; Lionell the third, duke of Clarence; Iohn of Gant, fourth duke of Lancaster; Edmund of Langlie fift, duke of Yorke; Thomas of Woodstoke sixt, duke of Glocester; and William of Windsor seauenth”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.