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Black Prince

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Black Prince: see Edward the Black Prince Edward the Black Prince, 1330–76, eldest son of Edward III of England. He was created duke of Cornwall in 1337, the first duke to be created in England, and prince of Wales in 1343.
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angered by Limoges’ resistance, massacred three hundred inhabitants (1370). [Eur. Hist.: Bishop, 75]
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By this time Edward III had died, and Richard, the young son of the Black Prince, had come to the throne.
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On such an occasion the author chanced to call to memory a rhyme recording three names of the manors forfeited by the ancestor of the celebrated Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis;---
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He was compared by obsequious flatterers to the Black Prince, to Alcibiades, to the young Caesar.
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