Prince John refers most commonly to the following:
- John, King of England (1167-1216), who was known as Prince John during the reigns of his father and older brother (Richard the Lionheart)
- Prince John, a primary villain in the Robin Hood stories, who is an exaggerated and fictionalized version of the above. See also Prince John (Disney)
- Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905-1919), the youngest son of King George V, a fragile boy who suffered from epilepsy and was possibly autistic.
Other members of the British royalty known as Prince John include:
- John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316-1336), second son of Edward II
- John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), third son of Edward III
- John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389-1435), second son of Henry IV
- Prince Alexander John of Wales (1871), third son and youngest child of Edward VII who died shortly after birth
Other uses:
- Nickname of Confederate general John B. Magruder
- The Prince John was a former Grand Trunk Pacific Railway passenger steamship that was transferred to the Canadian National Railway
- Prince John (horse) - Champion racehorse
Famous quotes containing the word prince:
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)