A story behind the aforementioned Claudius's Valentine states that he had fallen in love with the daughter of his jailer and before he was executed sent her a letter signed "from your Valentine." This may be the first link between Valentine and the emotion of love but by the fourteenth century, according to Henry Ansgar Kelly, a modern medieval historian, it was Geoffrey Chaucer who first linked St Valentine's Day with romance when he composed a poem to honor the engagement between King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, but the earliest surviving valentine love poem, written in the fifteenth century, was by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife
Today, Valentines day a commercial success story where twenty-five percent of all cards sent each year are valentines.