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Thomas Chaucer
Memorial brass of Thomas Chaucer in Ewelme Church, Oxfordshire
Speaker of the House of Commons
In office 25 August 1407 – 19 December 1411
Monarch
Henry IV of England
Preceded by
Sir John Tiptoft
Succeeded by
Unknown, next known is William Stourton
In office 19 November 1414 – 1415
Monarch
Henry V of England
Preceded by
Sir Walter Hungerford
Succeeded by
Sir Richard Redman
In office 1421–1421
Monarch
Henry V of England
Preceded by
Roger Hunt
Succeeded by
Richard Baynard
Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire
In office 1401–1402
Preceded by
Thomas Barantyn
Succeeded by
Sir Peter Bessels
In office 1406 – May 1413
Preceded by
Sir William Lisle
Succeeded by
Sir William Lisle
In office Nov 1414 – Mar 1416
Preceded by
Sir John Brayton
Succeeded by
Thomas Stonor
In office 1421–1421
Preceded by
John Danvers
Succeeded by
John Danvers
Chief Butler of England
In office 1404–1434
Preceded by
Unknown, last known is John Payn
Succeeded by
Sir John Tiptoft
Personal details
Born
c. 1367 Oxfordshire, England
Died
18 November 1434 Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England
Political party
None
Spouse
Matilda Chaucer (née Burghersh)
Children
Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk
Parent(s)
Geoffrey Chaucer Philippa Roet
Residence
Oxfordshire
Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367 – 18 November 1434) was an English courtier and politician. The son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his wife Philippa Roet, Thomas was linked socially and by family to senior members of the English nobility, though he was himself a commoner. Elected fifteen times to the Parliament of England, he was Speaker of the House of Commons for five parliaments in the early 15th century.
ThomasChaucer (c. 1367 – 18 November 1434) was an English courtier and politician. The son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his wife Philippa Roet, Thomas...
languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. Chaucer's contemporary Thomas Hoccleve hailed him as "the firste fyndere of our fair langage"...
Philippa de Roet (also known as Philippa Pan or Philippa Chaucer; c. 1346 – c. 1387) was an English courtier, the sister of Katherine Swynford (third...
lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus. The tales (mostly written in...
Henry VI, Part 1 and Henry VI, Part 2. Alice Chaucer was a daughter of ThomasChaucer and Maud Burghersh. Thomas was the Speaker of the English House of Commons...
rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in the fifteenth century and into...
founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386 and was bought by ThomasChaucer before the castle was taken under royal control during the Tudor period...
by the fictive Chaucer, along with The Tale of Melibee, who figures as one of the pilgrims who are on a journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury...
Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries. More recent scholarship...
Frevisse is related to Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales, by her aunt's marriage to Geoffrey's son, ThomasChaucer. Titles of the Frevisse novels...
a peer (1st Baron Tiptoft, 1426). 25 October 1407 19 December 1411 ThomasChaucer Oxfordshire First term. 8th-10th of Henry IV. 1412 1413 unknown unknown...
Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. It was completed in 1391. It describes both the form and the proper use...
Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury...
Alice was the daughter of ThomasChaucer, Speaker of the House of Commons, and a granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. As lords of the manor, she...
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury agree...
Who Murdered Chaucer? (2003) in which he argues that Chaucer was close to King Richard II, and that after Richard was deposed, Chaucer was persecuted...
Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher...
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