page_title: Thomas Chaucer
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Chaucer / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Burghersh: Gules, a lion rampant double queued or
context_page_description: Thomas Chaucer was Speaker of the House of Commons and son of Geoffrey Chaucer, the poet, by his wife Philippa Roet.
context_section_description: Early in life, Thomas Chaucer married Matilda (or Maud) Burghersh, second daughter and coheiress of Sir John Burghersh, nephew of Henry Burghersh (1292-1340), Bishop of Lincoln (1320-1340) and  Lord Chancellor of England (1328–1330), younger son of Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh (died 1305), and a nephew of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere. The marriage brought him large estates, including the manor of Ewelme, Oxfordshire.
caption: Arms of Burghersh: Gules, a lion rampant double queued or. Thomas Chaucer appears to have adopted a differenced version of these arms, with alteration to the field, in lieu of his paternal arms of Per pale argent and gules, a bend counterchanged, as used by his father the poet
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