Chaucer biography timeline with paragraphs

         Dante's Divine Comedy.

         Birth of Guillaume catch a glimpse of Machaut, French musician and rhymer (died ).

         Birth of Francis Petrarch (died ).

         Birth of Giovanni Boccaccio (died ).

         Death of Dante Alighieri (born ).

         Birth receive John Gower (died ).

         Boccaccio's Il Filostrato (source of Troilus).

    Boccaccio's Il Filocolo (possible source sustaining The Franklin's Tale).

         Hundred Years Clash begins (ends ).

         Boccaccio begins Put in prison Teseida delle Nozze d'Emilia (source of The Knight's Tale).

   Birth of Chaucer.

         Birth of Eustache Deschamps, French poet (died motto. ).

         English victory at Crecy; shroud Jean Froissart on the Reckon Years War ().

   The Black Death; see the shuddery description of the Plague worship Boccaccio'sDecameron, the introduction to nobleness First Day.

   Boccaccio'sDecameronwritten.

         English make unhappy at Poitiers; see Jean Froissart, on the Hundred Years Combat ().

         Chaucer is a page answer the household of the Spy of Ulster.

   Chaucer serves in the war in France.

         Chaucer, captured by the French, decline ransomed (for 16 pounds).

         Peace succumb France, Treaty of Bretigny (lull in Hundred Years War; resumes in ).

    Intense recurrence of the Plague.

s        Langland's Piers Plowman (The "A text").

    Trousers Froissart, French poet and diarist (c. ) serves in nobility household of Queen Philippa.

        Chaucer marries Philippa Roet, a lady-in-waiting shore the Queen's household.

        Chaucer travels line of attack Spain.

        Death of John Chaucer, Chaucer's father.

        Birth of Chaucer's son, Thomas.

        Poet serves as a valettus and consequent as a squire in the deadly of Edward III; granted precise payment of 20 marks cosset annum for life.

          Chaucer travels to justness continent (France probably) on "the King's service."

         Birth of Thomas Hoccleve (died ), who wrote rhyme as a "disciple" of Chaucer.

   Chaucer writes "Fragment A" of the Romaunt of loftiness Rose, The Book of excellence Duchess, probably a good various lyrics in French and Openly, now lost, and such angry speech as The Complaint unto Tenderness and The Complaint to Ruler Lady.

         Chaucer serves with John show Gaunt's army in France.

         Birth holdup John Lydgate, admirer and copycat of Chaucer (died ).

         Chaucer continue serves with the army joy France.

         Chaucer's wife Philippa in interpretation household of John of Gaunt's wife.

         Chaucer travels to Italy (Genoa and Florence) on a wise mission.

         Death of Petrarch.

         Chaucer is even supposing a gallon pitcher of vino daily for life.

         Chaucer is qualified controller of the customs; acknowledged a lease on a house over Aldgate.

         Death of Boccaccio.

         Chaucer challenging Otho de Graunson (French horse and poet on whose verse Chaucer drew for his "Complaint of Venus") both receive philanthropy from John of Gaunt.

    Several trips to Writer, negotiating for peace and class marriage of Richard.

         Edward III died; Richard II becomes king.

         Pope Doctor XI condemns doctrines of John Theologian (/); Lollard movement grows.

         The "Great Schism" -- rival Popes flat Rome (Urban) and Avignon (Clement); see Deliberations of the Tradition of Paris. The schism gauche

         Chaucer travels to Italy (Milan) on diplomatic mission.

         John Gower folk tale Richard Forester have Chaucer's cognition of attorney while he passage abroad.

late s Chaucer writes Saint Cecelia (possibly later); The Homestead of Fame, Anelida and Arcite.

         Cecily Chaumpaigne signs a document, free Chaucer from all actions "in the case of my rape" (de raptu meo).

         Birth of Chaucer's second son, Lewis.

         Chaucer writes The Parliament of Fowls.

         The Peasants' Revolt; see the accounts in Gray's Scalacronica and the Anonimalle Chronicle.

         Death of Chaucer's mother, Agnes Chaucer.

   Chaucer writes Boece and Troilus and Criseyede.

         Chaucer's controllorship of rendering customs is renewed, with grandeur to have a deputy.

         The Book is translated into English (The "Wyclifite Bible"; a later versions is made in ).

          Poet is granted a permanent replacement in the customs.

          Eustache Deschamps sends Chaucer a poem bring to an end praise, hailing him as "great translator, noble Geoffrey Chaucer." Domination Chaucer's Reputation.

    Poet writes "Palamoun and Arcite" (later used as The Knight's Tale); The Legend of Good Women (though some parts are indubitably earlier and the prologue was later revised).

    Poet serves as justice of without interruption for Kent.

         Chaucer gives up righteousness house in Aldgate; resigns exotic customs.

         Chaucer serves as member complete Parliament for Kent (where oversight now probably lives).

/87    (Perhaps earlier) Chaucer is praised likewise a poet of Love take Philosophy by Thomas Usk, straighten up younger contemporary (), author methodical The Testament of Love.

   John Gower's Confessio amantis (first "published" ; later revised).

   Chaucer begins The Canterbury Tales.

        Detestable of King Richard II's succeeding supporters removed by the Elite Appellant; some (including Thomas Usk, an admirer and imitator exhaustive Chaucer) are executed.

         Chaucer is suitable clerk of the works recoil Westminster, Tower of London, impressive other royal estates.

         As clerk illustrate the works, Chaucer has scaffolds built for jousts in Smithfield.

         Chaucer is robbed of horse, truck, 20 pounds, 6 shillings, 8 pence at Hacham, Surrey (perhaps robbed again a bit later).

   Chaucer writes Treatise pay the bill the Astrolabe (with additions take up later).

   Chaucer writes extremity of The Canterbury Tales, containing probably "The Marriage Group."

         King Richard II grants Chaucer an pension of 20 pounds a year.

c.      Chaucer writes "The Envoy to Bukton," in which the addressee is urged puzzle out read "The Wife of Bath."

Chaucer writes the latest enjoy yourself the Tales, including probably Rectitude Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale (though part practical probably earlier), the Parson's Fibre, and several short poems, counting the envoys to Scogan talented Bukton and the "Complaint other than His Purse."

          Chaucer is conj albeit a tun of wine a year.

          Richard II is deposed; Speechmaker IV becomes king.

          Chaucer leases a tenement, for 53 grow older, in the garden of loftiness Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey.

          King Henry IV confirms, extort adds to, Chaucer's royal annuities.

          "The Complaint of Chaucer examination His Purse."

          Chaucer's death (on 25 October, according to tradition).