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Hace 4 días · Thomas Chaucer was the son of the poet, and was active in the government service, as well as in local affairs. (fn. 133) He died in 1435 after having vested his Garsington manors and other properties in trustees for the use of his wife Maud.
Hace 4 días · Thomas Chaucer had been granted the office of constable of the king's castle of Wallingford in 1399, with the stewardship of the honours of Wallingford and St. Valery, as well as that of the Chiltern Hundreds.
Hace 3 días · In 1431 Alice settled Hatford upon her father, Thomas Chaucer, and his wife Maud for life. (fn. 20) Thomas died seised of it in 1434, (fn. 21) and on the death of Maud two years later (fn. 22) it reverted to Alice, who married as her third husband William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk, and had by him a son John, created Duke of Suffolk ...
Hace 1 día · "Robert R. Edwards brings new interpretive perspectives to Walter Map, Marie de France, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate. He offers a critical reading of key moments that define the emergence of medieval English authorship by showing how writers adapt the commonplaces of authorship to define themselves and their works externally and to construct literary meaning ...
Hace 2 días · Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the ...
Hace 4 días · The Truce of Tours (1444) provided for a marriage between Henry VI and the niece of Queen Mary of France; extensions of the truce gave Charles time to strengthen his military resources. War flared again in 1449, when England intervened against a duke of Brittany who had done homage to Charles VII.
Hace 3 días · Chaucer's contemporary, Thomas Hoccleve, praised him as "the firste fyndere of our fair langage" (i.e., the first person capable of finding lyrical matter in English). Chaucer is consistently esteemed and venerated as the founder of the English vernacular tradition.
