Home >> Arts >> Literature >> Authors >> L >> Lydgate, John John Lydgate (1370?-1451?); Monk and poet, born in Lidgate, Suffolk, England. He was admitted to the Benedictine monastery of Bury St. Edmunds at fifteen and became a monk there a year later. Easily educated, even researching at two Oxford University and Cambridge University, and getting literary ambitions (he was an admirer of Geoffrey Chaucer & a friend to his boy, Thomas) he sought and found patronage for his literary composition at a courts of Henry IV of England, Henry V of England and Henry VI of England. His patrons involved, amongst numbers of others, a city manager & aldermen of London, the chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and Henry V and VI, however his main supporter from 1422 was Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Around 1423 he was made anterior of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex but soin resigned a professional to concentrate on his travels & writing. He was the prolific writer of verse form, allegories, fables & romances, however his best known works were his hanker & supplementary moralistic Troy book, Siege of Thebes & a Fall of Princes. He too wrote the easily-known satiric function, London Lickpenny. Within his afterwards years he lived & probably died at a monastery of Bury St. Edmunds. The Canon of John Lydgate "John Lydgate's life overlapped with that of Geoffrey Chaucer, whom he repeatedly refers to as his master and model . . . ." Website for this scholarly project. Includes a selection of critical studies as well as archived texts.
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