Huchown, active 14th century
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Hucheon, active 14th century
Huchown, of the Awle Ryale, active 14th century
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Identifies RWO
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
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Poets
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Sources
found: Neilson, G. Huchown of the Awle Ryale, 1902:p. 2 (Huchown off the Awle Ryale)
found: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911:Vol. 13, p. 847 (entry: Huchown: fl. 14th century; "Huchown" or "Hucheon")
found: Oxford dictionary of National Biography, WWW site, 19 Dec., 2014(Hucheon [Huchown] of the Awle Ryale (fl. 14th cent.), author of several alliterative verses, has long been considered an important fourteenth-century Scottish poet; the evidence for this must be considered questionable; most commonly taken to be the Ayrshire knight Sir Hugh Eglinton (d. 1376), mentioned by William Dunbar in his "Lament for the Makaris", written between 1505 and 1508; if Hucheon was the author of the three works most credibly attributed to him, he was not a Scot; other proposals have included John Hucheon, a Kentish squire, a Northumbrian named Hugo de Aula of "Ryhull" (either Ryal or Ryle), and a member of Oriel College, Oxford) - http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14021
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2014-12-19: new
2014-12-20: revised
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