LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Richard III
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James 1
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Edward III
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Henry II
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chaucer serves in a military expedition under Prince Lionel (son of King Edward III of England) in France.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 1359 Chaucer was a member of Edward III’s army in France and was captured during the unsuccessful siege of Reims. The king contributed to his ransom, and Chaucer served as messenger from Calais to England during the peace negotiations of 1360.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chaucer was not a professional writer, but a courtier and civil servant who successfully served three kings in a long and varied career. Born in about 1342 into a middle-class merchant family, by the age of seventeen he was placed as a page in the household of Prince Lionel, one of the sons of Edward III.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1359, Chaucer joined the English army’s invasion of France during the Hundred Years’ War and was taken prisoner; King Edward III of England paid his ransom in 1360.
Detailed explanation-5: -Chaucer was a close friend of John of Gaunt, the wealthy Duke of Lancaster and father of Henry IV, and he served under Lancaster’s patronage.