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

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

* The Canterbury Tales, a 14th century collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.

In 1373 Geoffrey Chaucer visited and among the pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales

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Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.

* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.

Critics of this view argue that Oxford nor any other writer is not here identified as a concealed writer, but as the first in a list of known modern writers whose works have already been " made public ", " of which number is first " Oxford, adding to the publicly acknowledged literary tradition dating back to Geoffrey Chaucer.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Some of the others include Troades by Euripides, Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Iphigenia and Polyxena by Samuel Coster, Palamedes by Joost van den Vondel and Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz.

Geoffrey Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales shares many sources with various Decameron tales, including IX, 6.

The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.

Ockham and his works have been discussed as a possible influence on several late medieval literary figures and works, especially Geoffrey Chaucer, but also Jean Molinet, the Gawain Poet, François Rabelais, John Skelton, Julian of Norwich, the York and Townely Plays, and Renaissance romances.

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* 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.

* October 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet ( b. 1343 )

* 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.

* 1343 – Geoffrey Chaucer

* Geoffrey Chaucer The Legend of Good Women ( 1386 )

* probable – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet ( approximate date ) ( d. 1400 )

In the Reeve's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer ( circa 1386 ) it appears as " cokenay ", and the meaning is " a child tenderly brought up, an effeminate fellow, a milksop ".

* The Monkes Tale – Geoffrey Chaucer, Notes to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer also did much to popularize this view among speakers of English with his Canterbury Tales ( Wife of Bath's Prologue, v. 117-118 )

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.

The great-great-great-grandson of Hugh was Sir William le Scrope ( c. 1259-c. 1311 ) of Bolton, in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, who had two sons, Henry le Scrope ( d. 1336 ) and Geoffrey le Scrope ( d. 1340 ), both of whom were in succession chief justice of the king's bench and prominent supporters of the court in the reign of King Edward II of England.

Sir Geoffrey le Scrope ( d. 1340 ), chief justice of the kings bench as mentioned above, uncle of the first Baron Scrope of Bolton, had a son Henry, who in 1350 was summoned to parliament by writ as Baron Scrope, the designation of Masham being added in the time of his grandson to distinguish the title from that held by the elder branch of the family.

In 1970 – 71, Ray Illingworth led England to a 2 – 0 win in Australia, mainly due to John Snow's fast bowling, and the prolific batting of Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich.

* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

* 1924 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer ( d. 2004 )

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* 1926 – Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician

Two lords – Theobald V, Count of Blois, son of the Count of Champagne, and Geoffrey, Count of Nantes ( brother of Henry II, Duke of Normandy ) – tried to kidnap Eleanor to marry her and claim her lands on Eleanor's way to Poitiers.

* 1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1932 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet

* 1134 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes ( d. 1158 )

* 1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and producer

* 1943 – Geoffrey Deuel, American actor

* 1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English engineer and businessman, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company ( d. 1965 )

* 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor

John had a number of illegitimate children by various mistresses, including nine sons – Richard, Oliver, John, Geoffrey, Henry, Osbert Gifford, Eudes, Bartholomew and probably Philip – and three daughters – Joan, Maud and probably Isabel.

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.

Geoffrey and his uncle William de Clinton were forced to come to terms with Beaumont ; this set-back, and the difficult years of the Anarchy ( 1135 – 54 ), delayed any further development of the castle.