Jaspaert van den Kerchove alias de Atrio

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Church of Our Lady in Bruges, 1485-1500 (but not 1516)
R. Strohm (1985) devotes an entry of his "Appendix of musicians employed in churches of Bruges until c. 1510" to "Atrio, Jaspar de" designated as clericus tenorista of the church of Our Lady in Bruges, cited on 8.7.1485, and still a singer in 1500 (Strohm 1985, App. A, p. 132, refering to Dewitte 1970, p. 114). A. Dewitte indeed lists "Jaspar de Atro" as a singer in 1500 (ibid.) but adds in his alphabetical appendix of singers two entries for: "Jaspar Atro" residing in Rome in 1500, and still a singer in 1516, acting as prepositus sociorum musice (Dewitte 1970, p. 124).

Church of Saint Walburga in Oudenaarde, c. 1470-1500
E. Verroken recently explained that these first two entries in fact refer to a singer from Oudenaarde named "Her Jaspaert van den Kerchove", whose registration at the University of Leuven in 1476 was recorded under the name ‘Jaspar de Cymitterio de Aldenaerdo (Tornac. dioc.)’. Den Kerchove had become a member of the Confraternity of Our Lady in St. Walburga’s church between 1467 and 1477, and administered the cofer of its altar of our Lady of Milan (‘van Onze-Vrouwe van Milanen’). An Oudenaarde document states that van den Kerchove died in Rome in 1500 (‘gestorven is binnen der stede van Rome’) and that his sister Mergriete and half-brother Willem de Moor had to buy a rent to finance the execution of his testament (Verroken 2020, p. 188-189).

Comment
The distribution of this singer's activity between Bruges and Oudenaarde remain somewhat unclear, so his employments in both churches has been assumed to last all over his period of activity. The third mention of a "Jaspar Atro" in Bruges has to refer to another singer.

Fiala David

Information

Roles

Member of a church (musician)
Singer
Tenor
Gender

Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)

3 in database

Geographical origins

Oudenaarde (Belgium)

Musical position

Member of a church (musician)
after 1470
Oudenaarde (Belgium)

Institution: Sint-Walburgakerk Oudenaarde, Oudenaarde (Belgium)

Bibliography: Verroken 2020

Musical position

Member of a church (musician)
1485-07-08/1500
Brugge (Belgium)

Institution: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk Brugge, Brugge (Belgium)

Death

1500
Oudenaarde (Belgium)

Bibliography: Verroken 2020

Variant names

Atrio (de) (alias) ; Atro (de) ; de Cymitterio de Aldenaerdo ; Gaspard

Associated people

No associated person.

Bibliography

[Dewitte 1970]

Dewitte, A., 1970, De geestelijkheid van de Brugse Lieve-Vrouwkerk in de 16e eeuw, Handelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis, 107, p. 100‑135 https://openjournals.ugent.be/gvg/article/id/70204/ (consulté le 26 juin 2025).

(p. 114, 124)

[Strohm 1985]

Strohm, R., 1985, Music in late medieval Bruges, Oxford http://lccn.loc.gov/83023966 (consulté le 22 janvier 2013).

(p. 132)

[Verroken 2020]

Verroken, E., 2020, New Biographical Information on the Formative Years of Gaspar van Weerbeke, Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 12, p. 167‑194 https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.JAF.5.120212 (consulté le 27 avril 2024).

(pp. 188-189)

Projects

Prosopography of Renaissance Singers

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Fiala David - Project manager ; Biography author

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