Geoffrey Chaucer John of Gaunt

Blue PlaqueLocation
Open in Legacy App

Connection to This Location

# Savoy Court: A Crossroads of Medieval Power and Poetry Standing at Savoy Court, you're standing where the fortunes of nations intersected with the birth of English literature. When Edward, the Black Prince, brought King John II of France here as a captive after his stunning victory at Poitiers in...

Location

Savoy Court, WC2R 0ET

Inscription

Here John of Valois King of France when brought to England as a captive by the Black Prince after the Battle of Poitiers, was entertained as a prisoner of war, and died on April 8th 1364. Also in the Palace of The Savoy, Geoffrey Chaucer first great English poet, came to dine many times with John of Gaunt, and here wrote many of his poems