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 ...

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 ...

It was partly influenced by a belief that birds began mating in mid-February-a fact noted by poets even as early as Geoffrey Chaucer ... 1382. Sending love notes on Valentine’s Day as ...

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 ...