# Geoffrey Chaucer

> He made English a language you could write literature in. Before Chaucer, if you wanted to be taken seriously as a poet in England, you wrote in French or Latin — he proved the vernacular could carry weight, and nearly two thousand English words appear in print for the first time in his manuscripts.

*14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1343
- **Died:** 1400-10-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born around 1343, Chaucer spent most of his working life as a civil servant: bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat, eventually elected to Parliament as shire knight for Kent. But he wrote constantly. The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde, Parlement of Foules — then The Canterbury Tales, the work that would make him the first poet buried in what became Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey. He also composed A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his ten-year-old son, Lewis, a working scientific text that doubled as philosophy. His contemporary Thomas Hoccleve called him "the firste fyndere of our fair langage" — the first to prove English itself could be the stuff of serious poetry. He died 25 October 1400.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 82.5 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 25.7 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 65.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #46

## Platforms
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## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Philosophy, #Politics, #Literature, #Medieval Era

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