Geoffrey Chaucer

Abt 1340 - 1400  (~ 60 years)

• Name	Geoffrey Chaucer  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1340  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1400  [2]
  Burial	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Person ID	I2051	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	John Chaucer,   b. Abt 1312, of London, England d. Bef Jul 1366 (Age ~ 54 years)
  Mother	Agnes Copton   d. 1381
  Family ID	F4487	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Philippa de Roet   d. Bef 7 Nov 1387
  Marriage	Bef 12 Sep 1366  [2]
  Children	1. Thomas Chaucer,   b. of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England d. 18 Nov 1434, Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England
  Family ID	F2502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 May 2020

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Kent in the "Wonderful Parliament" of 1386. Clerk of the King's Works, Westminster, the Tower, and elsewhere, 1389-91, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 1390-91. Forester of North Petherton, Somerset, about 1390-91 and 1399. An administrator and diplomat over many decades, one task he performed of relevance to this genealogical database was his 1378 mission to Italy to treat with Bernabò Visconti, ruler of Milan, ancestor of TWK, and his son-in-law John Hawkwood, the English mercenary commander, ancestor of JTS and DDB. He also, on 15 Oct 1386, gave testimony before the court of chivalry in the celebrated case of Richard le Scrope versus TNH, JTS, TSW, and TWK ancestor Robert Grosvenor. Greatest poet of medieval England.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.