- Traveled on diplomatic missions to France, Spain and Italy.
- Buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.
- Was a civil servant (controller of customs for London (1374-1386) and clerk of the king's works (1389-1391)) under Edward III and Richard II.
- Brother-in-law of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, made famous in "Richard II" by William Shakespeare. Geoffrey and John's wives, Philippa and Katherine de Roet, were sisters.
- He had four children: Thomas Chaucer, born 1369, Speaker of the House of Commons, who married Maud de Burghersh; Lewis Chaucer, who died young and to whom his father dedicated "Treatise on the Astrolabe"; Elizabeth, who entered a convent; and Agnes Chaucer, lady-in-waiting at the coronation of her cousin-by-marriage, King Henry IV.
- According to some theories, including one advanced by historian (and Monty Python alum) Terry Jones, Chaucer was actually murdered by political opponents.
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