Geoffrey Chaucer
1343–1400* · Person
Courtier, diplomat, customs officer and the father of English poetry, whose Canterbury Tales made the London dialect the model for literary English.
On these timelines: England, Arts and Thoughts, Master, People, United Kingdom (combined)
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