21+ The Canterbury Tales The Knight Social Status Background. Servant to craftsmen, good cook the knight the first pilgrim chaucer describes in the general prologue and the teller of the first tale. Distinguished for his work in battle;

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4 the cook social status: The knight murders her and frames constance for her death. The knight is the person of highest social standing on the pilgrimage though you would never know it from his modest manner or his clothes.

The host is the manager of the tabard inn, the origination his tale is of a woman named griselde who marries a man of grand status.

In 1386, chaucer became controller of customs and justice of peace and, in 1389, clerk of the king's work. The warden finds constance on the. They are captured by theseus, the king of thebes, and imprisoned in a tower together. The teller of the best tale will get a dinner paid for by all the others at harry's inn, the tabard, on the way back from canterbury.