Medieval France
(fl. late 14th c.). Herald for Sir John Chandos, constable of Aquitaine, the so-called Chandos Herald was frequently used as a messenger between disputing parties in the Hundred Years’ War. Working, like Froissart, from personal reminiscences as well as interviews with those who lived the events described, he composed ca. 1385 a Vie du Prince Noir in some 4,200 rhymed octosyllables.
It records the principal events of the Black Prince’s life and extols his prowess and piety. Froissart drew extensively upon his account of the Spanish expedition and Battle of Nájera in 1367. The poem is extant in a single manuscript in Worcester College, Oxford.
William W.Kibler
[See also: EDWARD, THE BLACK PRINCE]
Chandos Herald. Life of the Black Prince by the Herald of Sir John Chandos, ed. and trans. Mildred K.Pope and Eleanor C.Lodge. Oxford: Clarendon, 1910.
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