Jean Rongh

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Biography

He was one of the four Cambrai choristers whom Grenon took with him to Rome in June 1425, probably the same age as his two companions who were born around 1408. He sang in the papal chapel from June 1425 to November 1427. In 1426 he had been granted a canonicate at St-Amé in Douai, and apparently went back to Douai after his years in Rome (Planchart PCR / 2018, p. 94-95 and 746, after V-CVaav, I&E 383, f. 44v; I&E 385, f. 151; RS 202, fol. 108-108v). The acts of St-Amé have a lacuna from 1423 to 1434, but Rongh appears at the very beginning of the next register, when he asked to do his first year of residence at the annual general chapter meeting on the eve of Saint John the Baptist 1434. He is then listed as present at the chapter meeting of 10 March 1435 (ibid. and Fiala PCR, after F-AD59, 1G16, f. 1, 14), and he continued to appear consistently in the acts, always as a canon holding the rank of subdeacon, until his death in January 1492. His will survives (F-AD59, 1G155, f. 160).

Fiala David, Planchart Alejandro

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Roles

Choirboy
Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
Member of a court chapel (musician)
Gender

Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)

4 in database

Geographical origins

Douai (France)

Birth

1408/1409
Douai (France)

Comments: Année de naissance supposée identique à celle des deux autres enfants de chœur amenés par Grenon à Rome dont l'âge est connu (Poignare et Helderonque).

Musical position

Member of a court chapel (musician)
1425-06/1427-11
Città del Vaticano (Vatican City State)

Patron: Martin V

Institution: Papal chapel, Città del Vaticano (Vatican City State)

Religious position

Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
1428/1492
Douai (France)

Institution: Saint-Amé de Douai, Douai (France)

Comments: Canonicat obtenu en 1426 mais il sert à Rome jusqu'en november 1427. On suppose qu'il se présenta à Douai en 1428, même s'il ne demande à faire sa première résidence qu'en 1434. Il ne devint jamais prêtre.

Death

1492-01
Douai (France)

Institution: Saint-Amé de Douai, Douai (France)

Variant names

Ronch ; Rough

Associated people

No associated person.

Bibliography

[Fiala PCR]

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

[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).

(94-95, 746)

[Planchart PCR]

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

[V-CVaav]

S. d., Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Città del Vaticano (V-CVaav) https://rism.online/institutions/30077317 (consulté le 5 avril 2025).

Archival references

[F-AD 59]

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

Projects

Prosopography of Renaissance Singers

Contributors

David Fiala - Project manager ; Biography author

Alejandro Planchart - Biography author

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