Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameGeoffrey Chaucer 
[54, His article]
[54, His article]Birthca 1340
Deathca 25 Oct 1400
GeneralPoet. "Valetta" to king. Diplomatic negotiator.
FatherJohn Chaucer (-1366)
MotherAgnes
Arms Generally notes for Geoffrey Chaucer
Arms: Per pale argent and gules, a bend counterchanged. (DNB for Geoff, from his tomb. And Oxon visitation of 1566, '74 &1634, pub Harleian 1871, Woodstock church p. 33)
Crest (Oxon visitation of 1566, '74 &1634, pub Harleian 1871, Woodstock church p. 53.)
In Ancestor V, p. 178, his arms are given as: Silver a chief gules with a lion gold over all.
Crest (Oxon visitation of 1566, '74 &1634, pub Harleian 1871, Woodstock church p. 53.)
In Ancestor V, p. 178, his arms are given as: Silver a chief gules with a lion gold over all.
DNB Main notes for Geoffrey Chaucer
(There is a DNB article, but very long so excluded.)