ABSTRACT
The lack of reliable and revealing biographical detail makes it difficult to reach sure conclusions about many aspects of Gaunt's personality. At the age of fifty-four Gaunt was to consider seriously crusading in distant places. Either in 1380 or 1381, Gaunt married Blanche to a leading Norfolk landowner, Sir Thomas Morieux, presenting her with a table service on the day of her marriage and an annuity for their joint lives of 100. Despite the austere and reserved figure which Chaucer and Hoccleve gave to Gaunt, he had an addiction to luxuria. The following year Gaunt appointed Urswick his master of game. In 1374 Gaunt gave Urswick an expensively decorated hunting horn, ornamented with gold and pearls; as a New Year's present in 1381 he gave Urswick a goblet. Gaunt often paid large sums for birds to stock his mews or to give as presents. It is unlikely that Gaunt thought well of Pedro.
