John Lydgate

oHN LYDGATE was bora at thc vUlage of Lydgate near Newmarket m Su�folk, about 1370. His death probably occurred about 1440. Appar entiy the iatest datc discoverable ia any of his poems is 1433, in which year he wrote a sort of' city poem/ ceiebrating the pageants, processions, and other rejoicings in the city of London on the occasion of the soiemn entry of Henry VI. He was a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Bury ^ St. Edmunds. Among his numerous writings three stand out prominentiy: the Storie ofThebes, written when he was nearly fifty; the Troye Boo�, begun under Henry IV, and finisiied about 1420; and the Falls of Princes, written bctween 1422 and 1433.

1370 - 1451