# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-hoccleve
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:26:08.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-hoccleve"
name: "Thomas Hoccleve"
slug: "thomas-hoccleve"
description: "Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (1368/69–1426) was a key figure in 15th-century Middle English literature, significant for promoting Chaucer as \"the father of English literature\", and as a poet in his own right. His poetry, especially his longest work, the didactic work Regement of Princes, was extremely popular in the fifteenth century, but went largely ignored until the late twentieth century, when it was re-examined by scholars, particularly John Burrow. Today he is best known for his Series, which includes the earliest autobiographical description of mental illness in English, and for his extensive scribal activity. Three holographs of his poetry have survived, and he also copied literary manuscripts by other writers. As a clerk of the Office of the Privy Seal, he wrote hundreds of documents in French and Latin."
tagline: "English poet 1368–1426"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Henry_Prince_of_Wales_receiving_or_presenting_a_book_-_detail.jpg/330px-Henry_Prince_of_Wales_receiving_or_presenting_a_book_-_detail.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1369"
deathDate: "1426"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.14
  momentum:             2.419354838709677
  historical:           10.55414133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "توماس هوكليف"
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    title: "توماس هوكليف"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Occleve"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoccleve"
    title: "Thomas Hoccleve"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoccleve"
    title: "Thomas Hoccleve"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Occleve"
    title: "Thomas Occleve"
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  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoccleve"
    title: "Thomas Hoccleve"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Occleve"
    title: "Thomas Occleve"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Occleve"
    title: "Thomas Occleve"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Occleve"
    title: "Thomas Occleve"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoccleve"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoccleve"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump