Literatus Obitus

On this day,

Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, courtier and diplomat died in 1400 at his home in Westminster Abbey whilst working on a poem about a group of pilgrims journeying to the shrine of Thomas a’Becket and their varied stories.

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