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The world's first protestant was Jan Hus - a Czech pastor who quarreled with the Roman Catholic church and was burned at the stake in 1415.

Geoffrey Chaucer was already dead in 1415 (he seems to have died around 1400), so he was Roman Catholic (as were almost all European Christians at that time).

The movement of dissent within the Roman Catholic church which would eventually give rise to Protestantism had already begun in Chaucer's time: the church' critics were called lollards.

Chaucer makes good-natured fun of lollards in The Canterbury Tales, so it is likely he had little sympathy with protestantism as a point of view.

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