>In 1359, in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War, Edward invaded France. Chaucer travelled with Lionel of Antwerp, Elizabeth's husband, as part of the English army. In 1360 he was captured during the siege of Rheims. The king paid £16 for his ransom,[19] a considerable sum equivalent to £14,557 in 2023,[20] and Chaucer was released
>The next year, Chaucer travelled to Picardy as part of a military expedition; in 1373 he visited Genoa and Florence
>In 1378 Richard II sent Chaucer as an envoy (secret dispatch) to the Visconti and Sir John Hawkwood, English condottiere (mercenary leader) in Milan.[28] It has been speculated that it was Hawkwood on whom Chaucer based his character, the Knight, in the Canterbury Tales, for a description matches that of a 14th-century condottiere
Chaucer had to have killed someone

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