Pierre de Calonne

fl. 1450-1503†

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Biography

Cathedral of Cambrai, 1450 and 1474-1503 (Planchart PCR / 2018, p. 698)
"Calonne" was a minor vicar from 3.2 to at least 23.6.1450 (F-AD59, 4G 7449, f. 7). He must have left sometime between July 1450 and June 1451 (account lost) since he is no longer among the minor vicars the following fiscal year. No documents in the 1450s give his first name, but he might be the Pierre Callonne who held one of the foreign chaplaincies at St. Géry in 1474-75 (F-AD59, 7G 2956, fascicle of 1469-70, f. 3v), and eventually became a canon of Cambrai on 14.2.1483 (F-CA, ms. 1061, f. 154v). Perhaps it is significant that after his death on 13.2.1503 his prebend went to Denis de Hollain, who had been also a minor vicar and was still the magister puerorum (F-CA, ms. 1064, f. 437).

Milan, Ducal chapel, 1473
A "Pietro da Calon" appears as the third singer named on a single list of the “Capela de Camera” of the duke of Milan produced some time before August 1473. He does not seem to appear again on any of the later lists, since he apparently is not the "Peroto" who appears in the same position in the next available list, dated 15.7.1474 (Merkley&Merkley, p. 101-102).

Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris, 1478-1482
On 27.4.1478, "Petrus Callonne, tenorista" was received as clerk of matins of Notre-Dame de Paris, asking for complementary income because he was not a priest and had no other revenue. He then regularly received gifts for helping him until the beginning of 1481. He was raised to the minor order of accolyte on 1.7.1482 in Saint-Cloud by the bishop of Paris, being designated on that occasion as curate of the parish church of Tremblay. Ten days later, he obtained a major vicariate of Saint-Marcel of Paris by exchanging a chapel in the priory of Saint-Martin-in-the-fields with Simon Michel. He was exempted of examination once he was declared to be capable and knowledgeable in the art of music, since he was a tenor and clerk of matins of the church ("sine examine postquam declaratus fuit et reputatus sufficientis et doctus in arte musice actentes quod est tenor et clericus matutinarum ecclesie"). The following 21.9.1482, he was ordained a subdeacon by the bishop of Paris in his palace (Fiala PCR, after F-AN, LL 122, p. 262, 264, 298, 300, 346, 456, 494, and LL 123, p. 82, 92, 118). Even if this is not recorded in the archives of Notre-Dame in Paris, he obviously became a priester in the following weeks or months, which allowed him to take possession of his canonicate in Cambrai six months later.

Cathedral of Cambrai, 1483-1503
Confirming A. Planchart's hypothesis (see above), he must have left Paris in late 1482 or early 1483 to take possession of his canonicate in Cambrai on 24.2.1483, where he spent the rest of his life. On 8.8.1496, he was mandated by the chapter to put an end to the minor vicars' misconducts with Rogier de Lignoquercu* and Pierre Godemare (F-Pn Pirro, Boite 50, Notes, after F-CA, ms. 1063, f. 129v). Many more archival references are listed by Monique Maillard (FEG 24 Cambrai, p. 579-580, n° 1452), who provides the following information: he was in charge of the offices of the assise (1495-1496) and of the fabric (1498-1499); he undertook a pilgrimage in Rome in 1500; after his death on 3.12.1503, he was buried in the chapel Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul of the cathedral; his will has been preserved, including a list of his books; his brother was named Jean. This brother might be the builder Jean de Calonne, whose payment for his work in a chapel of the cathedral in 1498, the year in which Pierre de Calonne was in charge of the account of the fabric, indicates that he had died in June 1498 (Houdoy 1880, p. 204).

Fiala David, Planchart Alejandro

Information

  • Roles

    Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
    Member of a church (musician)
    Member of a court chapel (musician)
    Pilgrim
    Tenor

  • Gender

    Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)

6 in database

Musical position

Member of a church (musician)
1450-02-03/1450-06-23
Cambrai (France)


Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambrai, Cambrai (France)

Bibliography: Planchart PCR

Comments: Might have been served longer during the year June 1450- June 1451 (account lost), but no mention in the account starting in July 1451.

Musical position

Member of a court chapel (musician)
1473/1474
Milano (Italy)


Patron: Galeazzo Maria Sforza

Institution: Cappella ducale di Milano, Milano (Italy)

Bibliography: Merkley & Merkley 1999

Musical position

Member of a church (musician)
1478-04-27/1482-09-21
Paris (France)


Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris (France)

Bibliography: Fiala PCR

Comments: Clericus matutinarum and tenorista

Religious position

Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
1483-02-14/1503
Cambrai (France)


Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambrai, Cambrai (France)

Bibliography: Planchart PCR

Travel

1500
Città del Vaticano (Vatican City State)


Bibliography: FEG 24 Cambrai

Death

1503-02-13
Cambrai (France)


Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambrai, Cambrai (France)

Variant names

Callonne ; Calone ; Pietro da Calon

Associated people

No associated person.

Bibliography

[FEG 24 Cambrai]

Maillard-Luypaert, M., 2024, Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae: répertoire prosopographique des évêques, dignitaires et chanoines de France de 1200 à 1500. Tome XXIV, Diocèse de Cambrai, Turnhout, France.
(p. 579)

[Fiala PCR]

Fiala, D., 2008, Contribution directe à la Prosopographie des chantres de la Renaissance / Direct contribution to the Prosopography of Renaissance Singers.

[Houdoy 1880]

Houdoy, J., 1880, Histoire artistique de la cathédrale de Cambrai : ancienne église métropolitaine Notre-Dame. Comptes, inventaires et documents inédits avec une vue et un plan de l’ancienne cathédrale, Lille https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5765643q.
(p. 97, 204)

[Merkley & Merkley 1999]

Merkley, P. A. et Merkley, L. L. M., 1999, Music and patronage in the Sforza Court, Turnhout http://www.sudoc.fr/055225020 (consulté le 22 janvier 2013).

[Planchart 2018]

Planchart, A. E., 2018, Guillaume Du Fay: The Life and Works, Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/guillaume-du-fay/C1FA92429F59A808EE02AE69BC1D76AE (consulté le 16 mars 2024).
(p. 698)

[Planchart PCR]

Planchart, A. E., 2008, Contribution directe à la Prosopographie des chantres de la Renaissance / Direct contribution to the Prosopography of Renaissance Singers.

[Sartori 1956]

Sartori, C., 1956, Josquin des Prés, cantore del Duomo di Milano (1459-1472), Annales musicologiques, 4, p. 55‑83.

Archival references

[F-AD 59]

S. d., Archives départementales du Nord, FranceArchives https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/service/33921 (consulté le 9 février 2025).

[F-AN]

S. d., Archives nationales, Paris, FranceArchives https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/service/34633 (consulté le 7 avril 2025).

[F-CA]

S. d., Le Labo, Cambrai (olim Médiathèque d’agglomération de Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale/ Communale) https://rism.online/institutions/30001436 (consulté le 26 juin 2025).

[F-Pn, Fonds Pirro]

S. d., Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département de la Musique, Fonds André Pirro https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc101975b/cb85 (consulté le 16 septembre 2025).
(p. Boite 51/50)

Contributors

Fiala David - Project manager ; Biography author

Planchart Alejandro - Biography author ; Collaborative work

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