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Chapel of Louis of Male, 1363-1384
Listed as chaplain in the court of Louis de Male in 1379-1380, but has held a position in Louis’s court as early as 1363: he had been granted a chaplainry for the castle of Rupelmonde in that year, and before May 1368 he was listed as chaplain at the church of Wingard in Bruges (Wright 1979, p. 22). In 1368 he was also received as a chaplain for the chapels of the count’s hôtels in Blaton and Bruges.
On 28.2.1384 he was formally released from his duties along with the other members of Louis’s court chapel (id., p.56). In between this and being recruited into Philip the Bold’s court, he and the former members of Louis’s court chapel were given 80 francs each to provide for their personal needs (id., p.187, document 44: "pour faire leurs depens et avoir leurs neccessitez").
Chapel of Burgundy, 1384-1391
He was engaged as a chaplain at Philip the Bold’s court on 14.4.1384, along with other members from Louis de Male’s court. His role is specifically listed as a “teneur” (Wright 1979, p. 21), and in the lists of chaplains and clerks, he is listed third from 1384 to 1389, and then second in 1391. He left the position by 1392, and returned to Flanders afterwards. During his time in Philip’s court, he held benefices in the diocese of Thérouanne: specifically, before 1390 he is listed as canon and prebendary of St Martin in Hesdin, and on 19.3.1390, he was given a canonicate and prebend for the church of St. Omer in the region of St. Omer (id., p. 68).
Notre-Dame Cathedral at Tournai, 1394-1427
He was received in 1494 as a canon at the cathedral Notre-Dame in Tournai (Weigert 1999, p. 164-165). In December 1402, he donated two choir tapestries of the lives of St. Piat and St. Eleutherius to the church (ibid. and Brine 2015, p. 98, 257, note 45). In 1404 he was allowed by John the Fearless to endow the cathedral with an annual rent of ten ecus, in order to establish perpetual masses for Louis of Male, Philip the Bold, Margaret of Flanders, and himself. This endowment came from the sale of Toussain’s property in Flanders, as a quittance from 29.7.1408 states (Wright 1979, p. 72). In 1410 he funded anniversary masses for himself, his parents and his benefactors by giving some of his land to the chapter. He died in 1427 and was buried in the cathedral ambulatory, close to where his tapestries were displayed. He was comemorated by a brass plaque which was destroyed during the French Revolution (Brine 2015, p. 98 and notes 45 and 46, p. 257).
Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
Member of a court chapel (musician)
Tenor
Male
7 in database
Member of a court chapel (musician)
1363/1384-02-28
County of Flanders
(Belgium)
Patron: Louis II of Male, count of Flanders
Institution: Chapel of Louis II of Male, count of Flanders, Brugge (Belgium)
Member of a court chapel (musician)
1384-04-14/1391
Paris
(France)
Patron: Philip the Bold
Institution: Chapelle ducale de Bourgogne, Burgundy (France)
Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
before 1390
Hesdin
(France)
Institution: Saint-Martin de Hesdin, Hesdin (France)
Bibliography: Wright 1979
Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
after 1390-03-19
Saint-Omer
(France)
Institution: Collégiale de Saint-Omer, Saint-Omer (France)
Bibliography: Wright 1979
Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
1392/1427
Tournai
(Belgium)
Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai, Tournai (Belgium)
Bibliography: Brine 2015
Comments: Still mentionned in 1410, when he funded anniversary masses but probably remained a canon until his death in 1427 (Brine, p.98).
1402/1410
Tournai
(Belgium)
Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai, Tournai (Belgium)
Bibliography: Brine 2015
Comments: Gift of tapestries in 1402 and endowments of masses in 1404 and 1410 at the cathedral of Tournai.
1427
Tournai
(Belgium)
Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai, Tournai (Belgium)
Bibliography: Brine 2015
Comments: Died in 1427 in Tournai where he was canon. He was buried in the cathedral ambulatory (Brine, p. 98)
Prier ; Priers ; Toussaint ; Toussano Pier
No associated person.
[Brine 2015]
[Weigert 1999]
[Wright 1979]
David Fiala - Project manager ; Scientific editor
Qing Lee - Biography author
https://ricercardatalab.cesr.univ-tours.fr/people/5632/
Lee Qing, Toussains Prieur, in RicercarDataLab [https://ricercardatalab.cesr.univ-tours.fr/people/5632/] (accessed 09 January 2026).
Last modification: Oct. 22, 2025