Robert Dynington

• Name	Robert Dynington  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I28538	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Andrew of Dynington
  Family ID	F11437	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary de Westhale
  Children	+ 1. John Chaucer,   b. Abt 1312, of London, England d. Bef Jul 1366 (Age ~ 54 years)
  Family ID	F10591	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Robert Malyn le Chaucer, "chaucer" meaning a maker of shoes or hose. He may have taken the name after the death of his employer, the mercer John le Chaucer. He is also recorded as Robert the Saddler. His family was engaged, over several generations, in the export of wool and the importation of wine through Ipswich, Suffolk. He was the first of his family to move to London.

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S8110] Chaucer's Major Poetry ed. Albert C. Baugh. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1963. [S8111] The Riverside Chaucer, third edition, ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.