* 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

Concerning the author of the poem, there is no doubt that it was written by Geoffrey Chaucer, for so he tells us twice in his works.

Nicholas is an avid astrologer ( as Chaucer himself was ), equipped with, " His Almageste, and bookes grete and smale, / His astrelabie, longynge for his art ..." John the carpenter represents unintellectual laymen ; John tells Nicholas:

However, Chaucer does not end the tale entirely happily: a darker suggestion is there, as May tells Januarie that he may be mistaken on many more occasions (' Ther may ful many a sighte yow bigile '), indicating that, perhaps, her infidelity will not stop there.

In the only scene of derring-do that Chaucer tells in the two and a half chapters he gets in, Sir Topas flees the battle, pelted by stones.

The character Chaucer then tells the laborious and dull debate of the Tale of Melibeus.

The English term Milky Way can be traced back to a story by Chaucer:

Panfilo's tale comes from Jean Bodel's fabliau " Gombert et les deus Clers ," a story also used by Chaucer for The Reeve's Tale.

In the ensuing celebration, Chaucer remarks that he should write this whole story down, as Jocelyn and William embrace.

Geoffrey Chaucer was among the first to tell the story in English with his The Legend of Good Women.

However, Chrétien de Troyes was not alone, Geoffrey Chaucer recounted the story in his unfinished work The Legend of Good Women as well as being briefly alluded to in ll.

The story of Coronis and Phoebus Apollo was adapted by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, where it forms the basis for the Manciple's tale.

" The Pardoner's Tale ", a story from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer may contain a reference to the Wandering Jew.

( Shakespeare apparently was able to learn enough about the content of the " Iliad ," whether directly from Chapman's translation, or from an acquaintance with what Chapman was working on acquired otherwise, to enable him to put forth " Troilus and Cressida " in 1601-2 ; that play is remarkable for interweaving the Iliadic story of the deaths of Patroclus and Hector with the quite un-Iliadic story of love betrayed as told first in English by Geoffrey Chaucer in his masterpiece " Troilus and Criseyde.

One is his dynamic and inventive version of the Orpheus story and the other, his Testament of Cresseid, is a tale of moral and psychological subtlety in a tragic mode founded upon the literary conceit of " completing " the story-arc for a character in a poem by Chaucer.

A prologue informs the audience that the play is based on a story from Chaucer.

Although some scholars are reluctant to say that Chaucer ever read the Decameron, Chaucer's story is very close to one told in Day IX, Tale 6 of that set of Italian tales, in which two clerks lodge with a innkeeper for the night.

In medieval Europe, this was a common device, used to indicate that the events included are fictional ; Geoffrey Chaucer used it in The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Parlement of Foules, and The Legend of Good Women ( the last also containing a multi-story frame story within the dream ).

Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy.

Chaucer based this tale on the Nicholas Trivet story from his Chronicle.

Historically, Griselda first came into prominence when Chaucer adapted her ( from earlier texts by Boccaccio ) for a story in The Canterbury Tales called " The Clerk's Tale.

* " The Reeve's Tale ", the third story told in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer and Shakespeare are among the authors who wrote works telling the story of Troilus and Cressida.

" The Friar's Tale " is a story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, told by Huberd the Friar.

* Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, ( the Miller's Tale is a story that humorously examines the life of a cuckold ).

The tale comes from the Histories of Titus Livius and is retold in The Romance of the Rose, John Gower's Confessio Amantis which Chaucer drew on for inspiration along with the biblical story of Jephtha.

Most of the other versions of the story focused on the cruel and arbitrary officials but Chaucer was far more concerned with the daughter as the central figure.

The Hagiographical story was a popular story format during the life of Chaucer.

* Richard II of England grants Geoffrey Chaucer 20 pounds a year for life for his services as a diplomat and Clerk of The King's Works.

* April 23 – In recognition of his services, Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life.

Some 20th-century historians have questioned these medieval accounts, claiming that references to St. Valentine are very scanty in old historical records and many of the accounts of the life of the saint appear to have originated with Geoffrey Chaucer.

Late in his life, he became a student, lecturer, and, finally, a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, specializing in the works of the English novelists, Shakespeare, the Elizabethan sonneteers, Chaucer, and the Anglo-Saxon poets.

Geoffrey Chaucer (~ 1343-1400 ), author of The Canterbury Tales was appointed Deputy Forester of the Royal Forest of North Petherton towards the end of his life.

Skeat argued instead that Chaucer intended the tale for the Yeoman, who would presumably be more interested in a tale of country life.

There is no relation between Frazer ’ s title characters and Chaucer ’ s, even when they have the same role in life ( e. g. Chaucer ’ s Prioress is a dainty, sentimental woman while Frazer ’ s is an ambitious, domineering one ).

Among these unknown authors, it is believed that Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at least one of the poems, titled in the anthology as, " To leade a vertuous and honest life.

The similar phrase " to set the world on six and seven ", used by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Troilus and Criseyde, dates about the mid 1380's and seems from its context to mean " to hazard the world " or " to risk one's life ".

He is comparable to Chaucer and Rabelais for his boisterous humour and knowledge of contemporary life.

Though subsequent non-fiction accounts of Katherine, including those by historians Alison Weir and Jeanette Lucraft, make clear that Seton's various speculations were partly and sometimes significantly incorrect, the novel does provide the reader with a reasonably accurate view of medieval England, life at court, and the lives of women in the 14th century, along with intelligent and sensitive glimpses of Chaucer, Katherine's brother-in-law.

Set in the 1440s and featuring real life characters such as Alice Chaucer, the novel is for readers eleven years and above.

Early in life Thomas Chaucer married Matilda ( Maud ), second daughter and coheiress of Sir John Burghersh, nephew of Henry Burghersh.