About Henry Scogan
Lived 1361 – 1407 (aged 45–46). Henry Scogan was a poet.
Henry Scogan (also Scoggin) (c.1361–1407) was an English poet and royal tutor.
Life Scogan belonged to a landowning Norfolk family; inn 1391 he succeeded his brother John as lord of Haviles. Becoming a courtier, he made the acquaintance of Geoffrey Chaucer, and became a poetic follower. Chaucer wrote a short poem Lenvoy a Scogan (1393).
In 1399 Scogan was granted letters of protection to attend Richard II of England on his expedition to Ireland. Subsequently, he became tutor to the four sons of Henry IV. The pairing of poet-characters "Scogan" and "Skelton" was worked up in 1600 by Richard Hathway and William Rankins.
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English poet
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Henry Scogan was born in 1361.
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Henry Scogan died in 1407.
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