eoffery Chaucer, the greatest English poet of his lifetime, is estimated to have been born in 1343. Throughout his life, Chaucer became a page in a royal house, a soldier, a diplomat, and even a royal clerk. Geoffery was born in to a middle class family, he was the son of a merchant. During the beginning of his life time, Chaucer worked for the wife of Lionel of Antwerp, the daughter-in-law of Edward III, as page. During his time as a soldier for the English Army in France, Chaucer was captured and held as prisoner. Luckily King Edward paid a sixteen-pound ransom for his release. Near his twenties, Chaucer married Philippa Pan who was a personal assistant or lady-in-waiting to the queen. Around the same time period, Chaucer began to develop
