By Jack the Good Knight. He captured a king, frightened the French and became one of England's most celebrated medieval warriors, but he was never known as the Black Prince while he was alive. In fact, the nickname doesn't appear in surviving written records until the 16th Century, nearly 200 years after his death. But who was the Black Prince and why can he be considered as one of the greatest knights of all time? Born for battle Edward of Woodstock (1330-1376) was born on 1