Chaucer (surname)

The surname Chaucer is thought to have one of the following derivations:

• The name Chaucer frequently occurs in the early
  shoemaker", which meaning is also recorded in the "Glossary of Anglo-Norman and Early English Words".^[1]
• From French 'chaussier', 'chaucier', a
  hosier.^[2][1]
• It may have arisen from 'chaufecire', 'chafewax', i.e. a clerk of the court of Chancery whose duty consisted in affixing seals to royal signature.[1]^[2] However, Kern doubted this derivation, since the surname 'Chaucer' was too common.^[1]

The first two derivations are ultimately traced to Latin calcearium, "shoemaker".^[1]

The surname may refer to:

• Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk
• Geoffrey Chaucer, "Father of English literature"
• Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367 – 1434), Speaker of the English House of Commons

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Alfred Allan Kern, The Ancestry of Chaucer (Google eBook), Lord Baltimore Press, 1906, p. 6
2. ^ ^{a b} Grace E. Hadow, Chaucer and His Times, (book description)

Surname list

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