Excerpt from Chaucer: Canterbury Tales: The Prologue the Man of Law's Tale
1. Chaucer's Life and Works.
The surname Chaucer is found in the earlier forms Le Chancier, Le Chaucer, "the hosier," from the A.D. same root as modern French chausse.
1337. Hundred Years' War began.
1338. John Chaucer, citizen and vintner of London, attended the king and queen to Flanders and Cologne.
1339 Geoffrey Chaucer, son of John and Agnes Chaucer, (about), born. The old date for Chaucers birth, 1328, has been proved to be impossible, but the exact year cannot be fixed: 1339 suits all the circumstances as well as any. See 1386.
1346. Battle of Crecy.
1347. Siege of Calais.
1349. The Black Death.
1356. Battle of Poitiers.
1357. Chaucer in the service of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and of his wife the Countess of Ulster, both in London and Yorkshire. Geoffrey was certainly well educated, but the statement that he was at Cambridge rested on the lines from The Court of Love, now known not to be his: -
"Philogenet I cald am fer and nere,
Of Cambridge clerke."
1359.Chaucer went to France as a soldier with Edward III and his four sons, and was taken prisoner.
1360. Ransomed two months before the Treaty of Bretigny, the king contributing ?16 towards his ransom.
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