John Lydgate

Type Figure Region England Time c. 1370–1451 Also known as John Lydgate、John Lydgate of Bury

John Lydgate (c.1370–1451) was an English Benedictine monk and poet, often regarded as the most important medieval English writer after Geoffrey Chau…

Timeline

c. 1382–1400Bury St Edmunds · SuffolkLydgate was born near Lavenham in Suffolk and entered the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds in his youth, receiving training in Latin and classical literature that laid the foundation for his verse epics.
1406–1430London · EnglandHe traveled to Paris and elsewhere, later writing for Henry V, the Duke of Bedford, and other Lancastrian notables, completing large verse epics such as The Book of Troy and establishing his literary standing as Chaucer's successor.
1431–1451Bury St Edmunds · SuffolkIn the 1430s he returned to the abbey to continue writing, completing moral allegories and religious works such as The Fall of Princes, until his death there in 1451, regarded as an important continuator of the fifteenth-century English verse tradition.

Sources

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: John Lydgate (2004) https://www.oxforddnb.com/
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature — David Wallace (1999)