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Chaucer's Official Life
by James Root Hulbert
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... scholars but boldly in that of popular writers- that Chaucer owed every enhancement of his fortune to his "great patron" John of Gaunt. ... "
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John of Gaunt, Devon's Issues, John de Beverle, William de Beauchamp, Richard Forester, John Legge, Justice of the Peace, Simon de Burley, Ancient Deeds, household books, granted custody, secret business
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Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Coloncial And Medieval Families (Royal Ancestry)
by Douglas Richardson
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... was at the Siege of Nantes and, in 1381, he went on Buckingham's expedition to Brittany. In 1385 he attended John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster in his expedition for the recovery of the inheritance of Constance of Castle). Coll. Top. & Gen. ... "
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The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era
by Norman F. Cantor
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... When John of Gaunt died in 1399, this neoclassical humanism was just beginning to have an impact on English and French culture. By 1450 ... "
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John of Gaunt, Black Prince, Middle Ages, Black Death, Catherine Swynford, Geoffrey Chaucer, billionaire capitalists, highborn women, chivalric culture, great aristocratic families, high aristocracy, cathedral canons
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The Last Plantagenets
by Thomas B. Costain
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... England. He turned over all his offices to his brother John, now called Lancaster but best known in history as John of Gaunt. This he did in a saddened mood for he knew that now the tide would turn more swiftly in favor ... "
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John of Gaunt, Thomas of Woodstock, Black Prince, John Ball, Richard of York, Sir Simon Burley, Earl of Arundel, Queen Anne, Sir Robert, Earl of Warwick, royal uncles, secret page
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