Professor Marion Turner

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You're Dead to Me · Geoffrey Chaucer (Radio Edit) · 29 May 2026 podcast

He becomes a page boy in a great household.

So and this is a very desirable thing to get.

Usually, you know, higher class boys would get this kind of job.

So his father probably got him this job because his father had been a royal tax collector.

So he had connections in the royal court.

So Chaucer's first job was.

When he's just a teenager, about 14 or 15, he pops up in the accounts of Elizabeth de Boer, Countess of Ulster, who is the daughter-in-law of the king.

So the daughter-in-law of Edward III.

She was married to Prince Lionel.

So a page boy is, I mean, he would have done a bit of kind of errand running and things like that.

But you're also simply a member of this lavish aristocratic household.

But you're mainly just kind of sitting about learning some poetry.

You're there partly to make the heads of the household look good because they can have a retinue.

Probably, yes, Philippa de Rohe.

There's a reference in the records to her being connected with the same group.

So we're not certain, but he probably meets his wife at this point.

And she was a little bit higher class than him.

No.

Yes.

I mean, I do think this is very impressive researcher type thinking, thinking about the accounts that because it is from the accounts and people often expect that the first record is going to be might refer to something to do with his poetry, for example.

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