ABSTRACT
Despite John Gower’s wealth, royal connections, and long lifespan, his only documented residence is the house in the precinct of the Augustinian priory of St Mary Overey in Southwark in which he married Agnes Groundolf in 1398, and in which he evidently lived with her until his death a decade later. This chapter will provide a survey of Southwark in Gower’s day, and will then investigate when Gower might have moved to Southwark, and where his house there might have been.
