Chaucer writes 'Complaint to His Purse'
1399
An aging Geoffrey Chaucer addressed a witty begging poem to his empty purse and, by extension, to the new king Henry IV who had inherited his pension obligations from Richard II. Henry confirmed the annuity. The greatest Middle English poet would die within a year, the Canterbury Tales unfinished but immortal.
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Also in 1399 (3 other events on record)
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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