Pierre Du Wez (Cambrai)

fl. 1443-1483†

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Biographie

• Cathedral of Cambrai, 1443-1483
(Planchart PCR-Small vicars) Pierre du Wez: was a small vicar from 14 May to 18 October 1443, 05 December 1443 to 03 January 1445, and 25 February 1446 to 08 July 1457 [F-AD59, 4G 7442, 8v; 4G 7443, 7r; 4G 7444, 5v; 4G 7445, 6v; 4G 7456, 7r]. His first absence was connected with a journey to the Council of Basel, no explanation for his second absence has turned up. Du Wez became a chaplain in 1449-50 (accounts of those years do not record the advents), appears in the lists from 1450-51 [F-AD59, 4G 6916, 23v] until 1482-83 [F-AD59, 4G 6962, 24r], in 1462 he was chaplain of the revestiary [F-CA, ms. 1060, 144v]. He kept Du Fay’s house for him during the seven years Du Fay was in Savoy in the 1450s and was one of his executors. He died on 08 May 1483 [F-CA, ms. 1061, 159v]. Though he was of modest means to the end (the aumosne granted him 100 s on 22 March 1482 on account of old age and poverty) [F-AD59, 4G 7767, 14v], the execution of his will [F-AD59, 4G 1705] shows he was a learned man who left behind a large library."
• Complements
"Tenor in Cambrai Cathedral Choir […] He also took part, with Dufay, in making the inventory of Cambrai Cathedral property in 1461" (Fallows 1982, p. 256, refering to Wright 1975, p. 187 & 189; N.B.: his designation as a tenor, which is not supported by any archival reference and is not recorded neither by A. Pirro nor A. Planchart, has to be taken with caution). He was abbot of the fools in January 1447 and exchanged  a chaplaincy in 1477 with Pierre de Rivo*, probably the singer who later served the chapel of Maximilan I (F-Pnm, Legs André Pirro, boîte 50, manuscript notes after F-CA, ms. 1058, f. 145v, 8.1.1447: Petro de Vado, abbé des fous; ms. 1061, 21v, 26.3.1477: Petr. du We, pr. proc. curé de S Nic. de Brules in Tornaco dioc. Cambrai, résign. par permutation avec Petro de Rivo, pr. chap. S Alexis à l’autel S Vincent du monastère de Cisoing, dioc. Tournai).
• Homonyms. No information is available on his potential link with his homonym who died in 1507 after a long career of singer at the court of Burgundy; see Pierre Du Wez (Condé)*.

Fiala David

Informations

  • Rôles

    Member of a church (lower ranked officer)
    Member of a church (musician)
    Priest
    Tenor

  • Genre

    Male

Événements

(YYYY-MM-DD)

3 en base de données

Musical position

Member of a church (musician)
1443-05-14/1457-07-08
Cambrai (France)


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

Religious position

Member of a church (lower ranked officer)
1449/1483
Cambrai (France)


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

Commentaires : Chaplain

Death

1483-05-08
Cambrai (France)


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

Variantes

de Vado

Personnes associées

Aucune personne associée.

Bibliographie

[Fallows 1982]

Fallows, D., 1982, Dufay, London http://www.sudoc.fr/045408580.
(p. 256)

[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).

[Planchart PCR]

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

[Wright 1975]

Wright, C., 1975, Dufay at Cambrai: Discoveries and Revisions, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 28, p. 175‑229 http://www.jstor.org/stable/830766.
(p. 187, 189)

Dépôts d'archives

[F-AD 59]

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

[F-Pn]

S. d., Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département de la Musique, Paris (F-Pn) https://rism.online/institutions/30001488 (consulté le 9 septembre 2025).

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David Fiala - Project manager ; Biography author


Collecteurs de données

collab_surname Guillaume Avocat

David Fiala

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