The Father of English literature

GEOFFREY CHAUCER IN HIS EARLY YEARS

• Born 1343
• In London, England
• In 1357 he became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster
• The Canterbury Tales became his best known
• His childhood was very simplistic
• As a teenager Chaucer gets a job as a page to the Countess of Ulster.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER HIS CHARECTER

• Perhaps the chief characteristics of Chaucer’s works are their variety in subject matter, genre, tone, and style and in the complexities presented concerning the human pursuit of a sensible existence.
• He also is a man that tends to want to be alone.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OR SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

• The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. And he started it after his wife dies. He also contributed importantly in the second half of the 14th century to the management.
• Edward III invades France during the Hundred Years' War between France and England. Chaucer fights in the English Army.
• Chaucer is captured during the Seige of Rheims in northeastern France. He is ransomed for sixteen pounds.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OR SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

• Geoffrey Chaucer marries Philippa de Roet, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Philippa of Hainault. They have three or four children, the first of whom - a son named Thomas - is born about a year later.
• Other poems he makes are Anelida and Arcite,The House of Fame,and Troilus and Criseyde and Parlement of Foules
• Chaucer becomes a member of the royal court as a valet to King Edward III.

IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN GEOFFREY CHAUCER LIFE

• Mother:Agnes Copton
• Father:John Chaucer
• King:King Edward III

GEOFFREY CHAUCER INTERESTING FACTS

• 1) Chaucer had at least nine other major works besides the Canterbury Tales, and wrote a number of short poems as well. 2) There's a crater on the far side of the moon named for Chaucer. 3) Chaucer had a part-time government job collecting scrap metal for reuse and also worked as a diplomat.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER INTERESTING FACTS

• 4) He was a POW during the Hundred Years' War, captured by France and later released after ransom was paid.
• 5) On St. George’s Day 1374, Edward III granted Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine for every day for the rest of the poet’s life.

What have you learned about life in the Middle Ages during your research?

• I learned that to live in the Middle Ages it is hard to live poor, but the Fitch can still have a hard time.

DIED

• October 25, 1400 in London, England, and was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner.