Geoffrey Chaucer

Also known as: Chaucer / Geffrie Chaucer · Role: translator · First appears: Richard II 83

Life events

• 1402 · Geoffrey Chaucer died, according to one reported account.(Henry IV 29)
  • “he departed this life about the yeare of our Lord 1402, as Bale gathereth”

Richard II 83

• with John Moone (Geoffrey Chaucer translated into English the work compiled by John Moone.) “who compiled in the French toong the Romant of the Rose, translated into English by Geffrie Chaucer,”

Henry IV 29

• with Nicholas Brigham (Nicholas Brigham erected Chaucer's monument.) “lieth buried at Westminster, in the south part of the great church there, as by a monument erected by Nicholas Brigham it doth appeare.”
• friends with John Gower “applieng his indeuor with Chaucer, to garnish the English toong,”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.