Geoffrey Chaucer

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Milestones

About 1345

GC , diplomat and poet, was born in Upper Thames Street, London.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press.
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1400, perhaps 25 October

GC , diplomat and poet, died in London.
The date is highly suspect, being based on an inscription of a hundred and fifty years later. Some commentators believe that Chaucer (who had recently rented a house in the sanctuary area of Westminster) died in prison for political reasons the year after Henry IV seized the throne.
Myerson, Jonathan. “Dead poet’s tale”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Background

About 1345

GC , diplomat and poet, was born in Upper Thames Street, London.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press.
412

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