One of his five top little-known but history-changing medieval crime stories, as shared at The Daily Beast:Who Murdered Geoffrey Chaucer?Read about the other entries on the list.
by Terry Jones
An investigation by the Oxford-educated Terry Jones (also of Monty Python fame) into the mysterious death (ca. 1400) of England’s premier medieval poet. Was Chaucer murdered? And, if so, was it because his writings contained heresy? Or because he supported the deposed King Richard II rather than the usurper Henry Bolingbroke? Chaucer’s murder, if true, did not so much change history as warn people that England had changed course with the new Lancastrian regime.
--Marshal Zeringue
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