ENGL 2P19 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Derek Pearsall, Geoffrey Chaucer, Black Death
20 Jan 2017
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Best sources: martin c. crow + clair c. olson: chaucer"s life records, derek. Mary heron (his grandma): had 3 husbands. Had a son named chaucer with memlenit peppers (husband dies) Married robert malin le chaucer (he added chauser to his last name because he liked it even though it means shoe maker) Last names used to be based on jobs but then in the 13th century they got real last names because it was difficult to keep track of everyone. 1349 was the plague the black death. She married another chaucer, richard chauser also died the same year. Chaucer"s uncle died of the plague as well. She had john chaucer vintner (1312-1366) with him. John"s aunt abducted him because he had a large inheritance and she wanted him to marry her daughter. Ended up marrying agnes of compton she had a large inheritance.
