John Lydgate

Monk and poet, born in Lidgate, Suffolk, England. He may have studied at Oxford and Cambridge. He became a Benedictine monk at Bury St Edmunds, and in 1423 was made prior of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex. A court poet, his longer moralistic works include the Troy Book, the Siege of Thebes, and the Fall of Princes.

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