Clanvowe, John, Sir, 1341?-1391

found: "Þe law of God in here modyr tonge," the vernacular theology of Sir John Clanvowe, 1999.

found: LC in OCLC, 8/15/00(hdg.: Clanvowe, John, Sir, 1341?-1391; usage: Sir John Clanvowe)

found: Flower and the leaf. The floure and the leafe ; &, The boke of Cupide, god of love, or, The cuckow and the nightingale, 1896.

found: Literary Encyclopedia online, September 7, 2018Sir John Clanvowe (Life: c. 1341-1391; Activity: c. 1386 to 1391; Places: United Kingdom, England (Birth; Primary Activity); Activities: Courtier (Primary); Diplomat (Primary); Poet (Primary); Soldier (Primary); Dissenter (Other); Religious writer (Other); Sir John Clanvowe was the ideal Ricardian courtier. A member of the landed gentry, Clanvowe spent his early years as a knight fighting on several campaigns in the Hundred Years War with France. He later served as a knight in the households of the Earl of Hereford, Edward III, and Richard II, for whom he was a Knight of the Chamber, a trusted councilor and an ambassador to France. Clanvowe was an accomplished poet, author of the Chaucerian “The Boke of Cupide” and part of a court literary coterie that included Geoffrey Chaucer and others who were on familiar terms with French poets, such as Oton de Granson, Jean Froissart, and Eustache Deschamps. But Clanvowe was also the author of a pious religious treatise called “The Two Ways") - https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=891

found: Wikipedia, September 7, 2018(Sir John Clanvowe (c.1341-1391) was an English diplomat, soldier and poet. He was born to a Marcher family originally of Welsh extraction. He himself was probably of mixed Anglo-Welsh origin. He held lands that lay in the present-day Radnorshire district of Powys and in Herefordshire. He was a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He was one of the "Lollard knights" (with supposedly heretical views) at the court of King Richard II. Clanvowe's best-known work was The Book of Cupid, God of Love or The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, a 14th-century debate poem influenced by Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clanvowe