John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall
John of Eltham, 1st Earl of Cornwall( 15 August 1316 – 13 September 1336) was the second son of Edward II of England and Isabella of France.
He was heir presumptive to the English throne until the birth of his nephew Edward, the Black Prince.
Edward the Black Prince
Edward of Woodstock, known to history as the Black Prince (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), was the eldest son of King Edward III of England, and thus the heir to the English throne.
He died before his father and so his son, Richard II, succeeded to the throne instead.
Edward nevertheless still earned distinction as one of the most successful English commanders during the Hundred Years' War, being regarded by his contemporaries as a model of chivalry and one of the greatest knights of his age.
Edward was created Duke of Cornwall in 1337.
He was guardian of the kingdom in his father's absence in 1338, 1340, and 1342.
He was created Prince of Wales in 1343 and knighted by his father at La Hogne in 1346.
In 1346 Prince Edward commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Crécy, his father intentionally leaving him to win the battle.
He took part in Edward III's 1349 Calais expedition.
In 1355 he was appointed the king's lieutenant in Gascony, and ordered to lead an army into Aquitaine on a chevauchée, during which he pillaged Avignonet and Castelnaudary, sacked Carcassonne, and plundered Narbonne.
The next year (1356) on another chevauchée he ravaged Auvergne, Limousin, and Berry but failed to take Bourges.
He offered terms of peace to King John II of France, who had outflanked him near Poitiers, but refused to surrender himself as the price of their acceptance.
This led to the Battle of Poitiers where his army routed the French and took King John prisoner.
The year after Poitiers, Edward returned to England.
In 1360 he negotiated the treaty of Bretigny.
He was created Prince of Aquitaine and Gascony in 1362, but his suzerainty was not recognised by the lord of Albret or other Gascon nobles.
He was directed by his father to forbid the marauding raids of the English and Gascon free companies in 1364.
He entered into an agreement with Don Pedro of Castile and Charles II of Navarre, by which Pedro covenanted to mortgage Castro de Urdiales and the province of Biscay to him as security for a loan; in 1366 a passage was thus secured through Navarre.
In 1367 he received a letter of defiance from Henry of Trastámara, Don Pedro's half-brother and rival.
The same year, after an obstinate conflict, he defeated Henry at the Battle of Nájera.
However, after a wait of several months, during which he failed to obtain either the province of Biscay or liquidation of the debt from Don Pedro, he returned to Aquitaine.
Prince Edward persuaded the estates of Aquitaine to allow him a hearth tax of ten sous for five years in 1368, thereby alienating the lord of Albret and other nobles.
Drawn into open war with Charles V of France in 1369, he took Limoges, where in 1370 he gave orders for an indiscriminate massacre in revenge for the voluntary surrender of that town to the French by its bishop, who had been his private friend.
Prince Edward returned to England in 1371 and the next year resigned the principality of Aquitaine and Gascony.
He led the commons in their attack upon the Lancastrian administration in 1376.
He died in 1376 of dysentery and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, where his surcoat, helmet, shield, and gauntlets are still preserved.
Ælfweard of Wessex
Ælfweard( c. 902 – 2 August 924) was the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife Ælfflæd.
John de Wingfield
Sir John de Wingfield( d. circa 1361) of Wingfield Castle in Suffolk was chief administrator to Edward the Black Prince( 1330- 1376).
He and both his brothers fought at Crecy in 1346.
He fought in the Normandy campaign from 1347- 48.
He was appointed' governor of the prince's business'( in effect business- manager) to Edward the Black Prince round about 1351.
In 1356 Wingfield fought at Poitiers capturing the head of the French King John II's bodyguard, Sire D'Aubigny.
Edward III purchased this captive from Wingfield for £ 833.
Wingfield died in about 1361, possibly of the second outbreak of the Black Death.
His will provided for the founding of Wingfield College in 1362.
The college was endowed by the Black Prince.
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John Wingfield's only child, his daughter and heiress Catherine Wingfield, married Michael de la Pole, later 1st Earl of Suffolk and lived at Wingfield Castle in Suffolk.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
William Ros, 3rd Baron Ros
William Ros, 3rd Baron Ros of Helmsley (19 May 1329 – c. 3 December 1352) was a military commander under Edward, the Black Prince.
He was knighted by the Black Prince in 1346, having helped raise the siege of Aiguillon.
In the same year, he was one of the lords who led the second division in the Battle of Crécy, and afterwards commanded the fourth division of the English army against the Scots, near Neville's Cross, when David Bruce, with many of the Scottish nobles, was taken prisoner.
In 1346, he was with the Black Prince, at the siege of Calais, when it was taken by the English.
On July 13, 1346, he was named a Knights Bachelor.
In 1352, he accompanied Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster on his journey to Prussia; but died the same year, before the feast of St Michael, aged twenty-six, and was buried abroad.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
John Devereux, 1st Baron Devereux
John Devereux, 1st Baron Devereux, KG, was a close companion of Edward, the Black Prince, and an English peer during the reign of King Richard II.
Edward III of England
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was king of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.
Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe.
His long reign of 50 years was the second-longest in medieval England (after that of his great-grandfather Henry III) and saw vital developments in legislation and government, in particular the evolution of the English Parliament, as well as the ravages of the Black Death.
Edward was crowned at age fourteen after his father was deposed by his mother, Isabella of France, and her lover Roger Mortimer.
At age seventeen he led a successful coup d'état against Mortimer, the de facto ruler of the country, and began his personal reign.
After a successful campaign in Scotland he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1337.
This started what became known as the Hundred Years' War.
Following some initial setbacks, this first phase of the war went exceptionally well for England; victories at Crécy and Poitiers led to the highly favourable Treaty of Brétigny, in which England made territorial gains, and Edward renounced his claim to the French throne.
This phase would become known as the Edwardian War.
Edward's later years were marked by international failure and domestic strife, largely as a result of his inactivity and poor health.
Edward III was a temperamental man but capable of unusual clemency.
He was in many ways a conventional king whose main interest was warfare.
Admired in his own time and for centuries after, Edward was denounced as an irresponsible adventurer by later Whig historians such as William Stubbs, but modern historians credit him with some significant achievements.
Robert de Stretton
Robert de Stretton( died 1385) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield following the death of Roger Northburgh in 1358.
A client of Edward, the Black Prince, he became a" notorious figure" because it was alleged that he was illiterate, although this is now largely discounted as unlikely, as he was a relatively efficient administrator.

Question: What is the date of death of Edward The Black Prince's father?
Answer: 21 June 1377