Geoffrey chaucer biography summary organizer

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1345-1400) was one of the greatest poets of the late Middle Ages (C.

Geoffrey chaucer biography summary organizer

E. 476 c.–1500) and is considered to be the father of English poetry. Chaucer was born in 1343 to a fairly upper-middle class family, probably in London, his father being a wine merchant and king's butler’s deputy. There is little information about his education, but his writings prove that he was closely familiar with many books of his contemporary writers and of earlier periods and was probably fluent in several languages (French, Italian, and Latin).

After 1357 he obtained a job as page for the Countess of Ulster, then in 1359 he joined the English Army, was captured during an unsuccessful offensive at Reims, North-Eastern France, but was eventually ransomed.

In 1366 he married Philippa de Roet and had two sons, and two daughters.

In 1367 he was Member of the royal court being the valet to King Edward III, then in 1369 began working on the "Book of the Duchess", an elegy