Thomas Chaucer

- 1434

• Name	Thomas Chaucer  [1]
  Birth	of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Nov 1434	Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England   [2, 3]
  Burial	Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I28534	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Geoffrey Chaucer,   b. Abt 1340   d. 1400 (Age ~ 60 years)
  Mother	Philippa de Roet   d. Bef 7 Nov 1387
  Marriage	Bef 12 Sep 1366  [3]
  Family ID	F2502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud Burghersh,   b. Abt 1379   d. 27 Apr 1437 (Age ~ 58 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1395  [2, 3]
  Children	1. Alice Chaucer,   b. Between 1404 and 1405   d. 20 May 1475 (Age ~ 71 years)
  Family ID	F4420	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  An accomplished politician, he served in at least fifteen parliaments between 1401 and 1431, and was Speaker of the House of Commons five times, a record not equalled until the 1700s. He was also chief butler of England from 1402 until his death, with only two short breaks, and was thus able to direct a great deal of patronage.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4454] "Additions to Dugdale's Baronage; From the MS. Collections of Francis Townsend, Esq. Windsor Herald." Collecteana Topographica et Genealogica 8:67, 1843. [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.