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Edward, the Black Prince

1330–1376

Edward, the Black Prince, was the eldest son of Edward III and one of the most famous English commanders of the Hundred Years’ War. His victories at Crécy and Poitiers made him a symbol of chivalric warfare, though his rule in Aquitaine was also harsh and contested.

In Christian Cameron’s The Ill-Made Knight, in September 1356, London cook’s boy William Gold follows the army of Edward, the Black Prince, into France and finds himself among archers, knights and camp followers before the Battle of Poitiers. In Paul Bannister’s Storm of Arrows, the developing war with France places Holland and his longbowmen beside Edward, the Black Prince, during the great raid across Normandy. Other novels featuring Edward, the Black Prince include Elizabeth Chadwick’s The Crownless Queen, Anne O’Brien’s The Shadow Queen, Griff Hosker’s Blood on the Crown, Maurice Druon’s The King without a Kingdom, and David Gilman’s To Kill a King.

In non-fiction, Edward, the Black Prince is discussed in Dan Jones’s The Plantagenets. Dan Jones’s The Plantagenets approaches the subject through court politics and dynastic power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and political ambition and government.

Historical context

Historical periods linked to Edward, the Black Prince

Battle of Poitiers (1356) 1356 CE Hundred Years’ War 1337–1453 CE

Series

Series featuring Edward, the Black Prince (11 series)

Master of War in Order

by David Gilman 9 books 4.6

The Master of War series follows Thomas Blackstone, an English archer and later knight, through the Hundred Years’ War. Beginning with the Crécy campaign in 1346, the sequence expands across France, Aquitaine, Brittany, Castile and northern Italy, using Blackstone’s career to show how medieval war was fought through…

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Struggle for a Crown in Order

by Griff Hosker 10 books 4.5

Struggle for a Crown follows soldiers and retainers through the crises of late medieval England and France. The series moves from Richard II and Henry IV to Henry V, Agincourt, the later Hundred Years’ War and the struggle to hold English power in France. It is a dynastic…

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An Owen Archer Mystery in Order

by Candace Robb 16 books 4.2

The Owen Archer mysteries follow a Welsh soldier and former captain of archers who becomes an investigator, spy and officer in fourteenth-century York. Beginning in 1363, Owen serves Archbishop John Thoresby and later the city authorities, while his marriage to apothecary Lucie Wilton gives the investigations a close…

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Sir John Hawkwood in Order

by Griff Hosker 7 books 4.5

Sir John Hawkwood follows the rise of an English soldier from the Hundred Years’ War into the world of mercenary companies in Italy. Beginning around Crécy and the Black Prince’s campaigns, the series moves toward the White Company and the condottieri, where professional soldiers sell skill, discipline and…

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The Grail Quest in Order

by Bernard Cornwell 4 books 4.3

The Grail Quest follows Thomas of Hookton, an English archer whose search for the truth about his family becomes entangled with the opening decades of the Hundred Years’ War. The novels move through the capture of La Roche-Derrien, the assault on Caen, the Battle of Crécy, Neville’s Cross,…

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Arrows of Albion in Order

by Jonathan Lunn 8 books 4.3

Arrows of Albion follows Martin Kemp, an English archer and sometime mercenary, through the campaigns and border wars of the mid-fourteenth century. Beginning with Edward III’s invasion of France and the Battle of Crécy, the series moves through the siege of Calais, warfare in Brittany and Scotland, Gascon…

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Jeanette of Kent Duology in Order

by Elizabeth Chadwick 2 books 4.4

The Jeanette of Kent Duology tells the story of Joan of Kent, presented as Jeanette: a royal cousin whose private choices repeatedly become matters of dynastic importance. The Royal Rebel follows her forbidden marriage to Thomas Holland and the long legal battle to have that marriage recognised. The…

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Chivalry in Order

by Christian Cameron 7 books 4.5

The Chivalry series follows William Gold from his beginnings as a London cook’s boy in the campaign of 1356 to a career as knight and professional captain. His path leads from Poitiers through the mercenary wars of Italy, crusading expeditions and the rivalries of France, Savoy, Venice, Genoa…

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The Kingsbridge Novels in Order

by Ken Follett 5 books 4.4

The Kingsbridge novels trace the development of a fictional English community across nearly nine centuries. Builders, merchants, clergy, landowners, labourers and reformers repeatedly contest who controls work, worship, law and education, while the town changes from an impoverished Anglo-Saxon settlement into a cathedral city and industrial centre. Chronologically,…

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Storm of Arrows in Order

by Paul Bannister 2 books 4.0

The Storm of Arrows sequence follows Sir Thomas Holland from Edward III’s seizure of power to the opening campaigns of the Hundred Years’ War. Storm of Arrows places the young archer and baron beside the king during the overthrow of Roger Mortimer, the wars in Scotland, the naval…

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The Accursed Kings in Order

by Maurice Druon 7 books 4.2

The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…

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Standalone books

Standalone books featuring Edward, the Black Prince (1 book)

Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring Edward, the Black Prince (1 book)

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