Lydgate
JOHN, an English poet; born in Lydgate, near Newmarket, England, in 1370. He was a monk of Bury St. Edmunds. He translated Benoit de St. Maure's "History of Troy" at the command of Henry V.; wrote a poem on the "Battle of Agincourt," and one on the coronation of Henry VI.; his "Story of Thebes" is written as though it were one of the "Canterbury Tales" of Chaucer. He wrote also ballads that became popular. He died about 1451.