The Battle of Poitiers 1356 (12 page)

21 Seal of Edward, prince of Aquitaine.

22 Stall plate of Sir John Chandos

23 Jupon with the arms of Edward the Black Prince. Part of his funeral ‘achievements’ above his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral.

24 Tomb of Sir Nicholas Dagworth (d. 1402), Blickling church, Norfolk. The son of Sir Thomas and heir to estates in East Anglia, he forged a military career through service with the Black Prince at Poitiers and later as captain of Flavigny in Burgundy. He fought in the Castilian campaign of 1367 and after the reopening of the Hundred Years War he became closely linked to the English royal household receiving an annuity of 100 marks and became a knight of Richard II’s chamber

25 Stall plate of Sir John de Grailly

26 Memorial brass of Sir Hugh Hastings, d. 1347, Elsing, Norfolk. One of the finest and most elaborate brasses in England and one of the last in an East Anglian tradition that was ended with the onset of the Black Death. Hastings was closely involved in the military operation of 1346, leading a diversionary raid from Flanders. His brass (this is a reconstruction) also bears the images of a number of his most illustrious comrades in arms.

27 The funeral achievements of the Black Prince, Canterbury cathedral.

28 Shield with royal arms from the prince’s tomb.

29 Coin of the Black Prince

30 Coin of the Black Prince

31 Warwick castle. Thomas Beauchamp was a close military associate of the Black Prince. He fought alongside him at Crécy and was constable of the army in 1355–56. He captured the archbishop of Sens at Poitiers. He died in 1369. A number of the prisoners from Poitiers were lodged in Warwick castle. The original motte and bailey fortification was begun by William the Conqueror in 1086. The lordship passed to the Beauchamp family in the thirteenth century. In the 1330s and ‘40s, Thomas, the 11th earl, made a number of domestic improvements. Later in the fourteenth century the east curtain wall was built, flanked by Caesar’s Tower to the south and Guy’s Tower (1392–93) to the north.

32 Jousting helm of Richard Pembridge

33 Tomb of Sir John Wingfield, Wingfield, Suffolk. Wingfield served the Black Prince (as did his first cousin, William). He was a key figure in the preparation for the 1355–56 expedition as governor of the prince’s business and examined closely the fiscal implications of the
chevauchée
on Valois finances. He died in 1360.