To commemorate King Richard II's engagement on that day in 1381, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a love poem. “He had Italian friends who told him that it was the feast of St. Valentine, the first bishop ...

Medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the first ... In 1382, in the Parliament of Fowls (1382), he mentions that Valentine’s Day was when birds chose their mates. The earliest ...

The first instance of St. Valentine’s Day having anything to do with romance came in 1382 from English poet and writer Geoffrey Chaucer in his 700-line poem Parlement of Foules. Yes, the same ...

Lovers have always batted their eyes on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead ... But some historians now think the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to associate the holiday ...