Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367 – 18 November 1434) was an English courtier and politician. The son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his wife Philippa Roet, Thomas...

languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. Chaucer's contemporary Thomas Hoccleve hailed him as "the firste fyndere of our fair langage"...

Secondly, to Alice Chaucer, daughter of Thomas Chaucer and granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Richard Montacute, Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl...

Philippa de Roet (also known as Philippa Pan or Philippa Chaucer; c. 1346 – c. 1387) was an English courtier, the sister of Katherine Swynford (third...

was born as Alice Chaucer, a daughter of Thomas Chaucer by his wife, Matilda Burghersh. Her grandfather was the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury...

lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus. The tales (mostly written in...

Henry VI, Part 1 and Henry VI, Part 2. Alice Chaucer was a daughter of Thomas Chaucer and Maud Burghersh. Thomas was the Speaker of the English House of Commons...

founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386 and was bought by Thomas Chaucer before the castle was taken under royal control during the Tudor period...

rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in the fifteenth century and into...

Duchess of Suffolk Chaucer Elliott (1879–1913), Canadian sportsman Geoffrey Chaucer, "Father of English literature" Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367 – 1434), Speaker...

of Suffolk, and Alice Chaucer, the daughter of Thomas Chaucer (thus making John the great-grandson of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer). His youth was blighted...

husband) Alice Chaucer (1404–1475), daughter of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, and granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his wife, Philippa...

William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Chaucer and Maud Burghersh. Her father-in-law had served...

by the fictive Chaucer, along with The Tale of Melibee, who figures as one of the pilgrims who are on a journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury...

Hugh Fenn (...) (1402-1404) Thomas Chaucer (1404–1407) Deputy: Hugh Fenn John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft (1407) Thomas Chaucer (1407–1415) Deputy: Hugh Fenn...

Seward relates that throughout this period until Edmund's death he used a Thomas Killingworth, gentleman of East Anglia and London, as his Steward, for which...

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury agree...

Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. It was completed in 1391. It describes both the form and the proper use...

Frevisse is related to Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales, by her aunt's marriage to Geoffrey's son, Thomas Chaucer. Titles of the Frevisse novels...

a peer (1st Baron Tiptoft, 1426). 25 October 1407 19 December 1411 Thomas Chaucer Oxfordshire First term. 8th-10th of Henry IV. 1412 1413 unknown unknown...

Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk 20. Geoffrey Chaucer 10. Thomas Chaucer 21. Philippa Roet (sister of 31.) 5. Alice Chaucer 22. Sir John Burghersh 11. Matilda Burghersh...

Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury...

Marlborough. Chaucer's House was once home to Chancellor of England, Thomas Chaucer, thought to be the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. The Church of...

Lancaster's children by Katherine—John, Henry, Thomas and Joan Beaufort—were Chaucer's nephews and niece. Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, also known as the...

Thomas Speght (died 1621) was an English schoolmaster and editor of Geoffrey Chaucer. He was from a Yorkshire family, and matriculated as a sizar of Peterhouse...

Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries. More recent scholarship...

The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early-15th-century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth. It...

the tournament's sword event, enabling him to pay Chaucer's debt. In the joust, he faces Sir Thomas Colville, who withdraws from the tournament after...

Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher...

482. Richardson & Sayles, Select Charters Powicke (1966), p. 401. Rymer, Thomas, Foedera, vol. 1, p. Book 1, 381 Powicke (1966), p. 399. Flores Historiarum...