dward the Black Prince (1330-76), eldest
son of Edward III of England; created Duke of Cornwall (1337) and
Prince of Wales (1343); commanded the van at Crecy (1346); said
to be so called the Black Prince from the color of the armor he
wore at this battle; defeated and took captive John, king of
France, at Poitiers, and brought him to London; created Prince of
Aquitaine and Gascony (1362). [World Wide Illustrated
Encyclopedia, 1935]