From the period of the Good Parliament, Edward knew that he was dying.
His dysentery became violent, and he often fainted from weakness, so that his household believed that he had already died.
He left gifts for his servants in his will and took leave of the King his father, asking him that he would confirm his gifts, pay his debts quickly out of his estate, and protect his son Richard.
In his last moments, he was attended by the Bishop of Bangor, who urged him to ask forgiveness of God and of all those he had injured.
He "made a very noble end, remembering God his Creator in his heart", and asked people to pray for him.

His death took place in the Palace of Westminster.
He was buried with great state in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 September, and the directions contained in his will were followed at his funeral and in the details of his tomb.
It has a bronze effigy beneath a tester depicting the Holy Trinity with his heraldic achievements – his surcoat, helmet, shield and gauntlets – hung over the tester; they have been replaced with replicas, and the originals now reside in a glass-fronted cabinet within the Cathedral.
His epitaph inscribed around his effigy reads:
Such as thou art, sometime was I.

Such as I am, such shalt thou be.


I thought little on th'our of Death

So long as I enjoyed breath.


On earth I had great riches

Land, houses, great treasure, horses, money and gold.


But now a wretched captive am I,

Deep in the ground, lo here I lie.


My beauty great, is all quite gone,

My flesh is wasted to the bone.
From the period of the Good Parliament, Edward knew that he was dying. His dysentery became violent, and he often fainted from weakness, so that his household believed that he had already died. He left gifts for his servants in his will and took leave of the King his father, asking him that he would confirm his gifts, pay his debts quickly out of his estate, and protect his son Richard. In his last moments, he was attended by the Bishop of Bangor, who urged him to ask forgiveness of God and of all those he had injured. He "made a very noble end, remembering God his Creator in his heart", and asked people to pray for him.
His death took place in the Palace of Westminster. He was buried with great state in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 September, and the directions contained in his will were followed at his funeral and in the details of his tomb. It has a bronze effigy beneath a tester depicting the Holy Trinity with his heraldic achievements – his surcoat, helmet, shield and gauntlets – hung over the tester; they have been replaced with replicas, and the originals now reside in a glass-fronted cabinet within the Cathedral. His epitaph inscribed around his effigy reads:
Such as thou art, sometime was I.

Such as I am, such shalt thou be.

I thought little on th'our of Death

So long as I enjoyed breath.

On earth I had great riches

Land, houses, great treasure, horses, money and gold.

But now a wretched captive am I,

Deep in the ground, lo here I lie.

My beauty great, is all quite gone,

My flesh is wasted to the bone.
Edward the Black Prince