Edward of Angoulême

Edward of Angoulême
Edward of Angoulême, depicted on the Wilton Diptych in the arms of his mother.
Born	(1365-01-27)27 January 1365 Château d'Angoulême, France
Died	c. 20 September 1370 (aged 5) Bordeaux, France
Burial	Austin Friars, London Kings Langley (1388/9–bef. 1607) Bordeaux (1370–1388/9)
House	House of Plantagenet
Father	Edward, the Black Prince
Mother	Joan of Kent

Edward of Angoulême (27 January 1365 – c. 20 September 1370) was second in line to the throne of the Kingdom of England and heir to the Earldom of Kent and the elder brother of Richard of Bordeaux (later King Richard II). Born in Angoulême, he was the eldest child of Edward, Prince of Wales, commonly called "the Black Prince", and Joan, Countess of Kent, and thus was a member of the House of Plantagenet. Edward's birth, during the Hundred Years' War, was celebrated luxuriously by his father and by other monarchs, such as Charles V of France.

Edward died at the age of five, leaving his three-year-old brother, Richard of Bordeaux, as the new second in line. After the Black Prince's death in 1376, Richard became heir apparent to Edward III and succeeded the following year. Richard later ordered a monument to be made for his brother's tomb, which he had re-located; he also depicted his brother on the Wilton Diptych. In 1399, after twenty-two years of what has been described as a "turbulent reign", Richard was overthrown by his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, and subsequently imprisoned in Pontefract Castle, where he died in 1400.

Edward was born at the Château d'Angoulême, in Angoulême, then part of the Duchy of Aquitaine. His name, Edward of Angoulême, is a territorial designation referring to his birthplace; this was a common naming practice in 14th-century England. Through his father, Edward, the Black Prince, he was a member of the House of Plantagenet and the second, but eldest surviving grandson of the reigning English monarch, Edward III. Edward was related to the reigning French royal House of Valois through his paternal grandmother, Philippa of Hainault. His mother, Joan, was his father's first cousin once removed, and was suo jure Countess of Kent.