Person

-- Notes --

[1] Council of Basel, Johannes Haller, Gustav Beckmann, Herman Herre, and Heinrich Dannenbauer, Concilium Basiliense: Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte des Concils von Basel, vol. 6 (Nendeln/Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1976), 35–37.

[2] Archives départementales du Nord, Lille, (hereafter, AD 59), 1 G 2211 and BnF, ms. fr. 6737.

[3] The original archival document for this information has not been located. The source is Alexandre de La Fons-Mélicocq, “La collégiale de Saint-Amé à Douai aux XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles,” Archives historiques et littéraire du Nord de la France, et de Midi de la Belgique, 3e série, vol. 5 (1855): 161–95, on 174. This article was republished in “Les artistes dramatiques des provinces de Flandre et d’Artois aux XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles,” Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de la Morinie, 20 (1887): 341–454, with the year 1437 replacing 1439. It is possible that La Fons-Mélicocq later found a different document in AD 59 that we have yet to unearth.

[4] AD 59, 1 G 2212.

[5] Vatican, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Reg. Sup. 373, fol. 196v-197, cited by Alejandro E. Planchart in commentary to Guillaume Du Fay. Opera Omnia 01/08-15. Office Antiphons, 19; online edition, http://www.diamm.ac.uk/redist/pdf/08-15DuFay-Office-antiphons.pdf (accessed 26 January, 2015). The request also specifies that JSF had received this chaplaincy following the death of Nicasius de Platea, which is corroborated by the act of collation in the Douai Capitular Acts, where another entry refers to this chapel as being located “retro chorum,” i.e., behind the choir (see entries for 27 October 1439 and 24 June 1440 in Appendix 2 below).

[6] Archivio di Stato di Roma, Mandati Camerali 830, fol. 19v, 25v, 31r, 36v, 41v, 47r, 52v, 63r, 71v, 76v, 82r, 87r, 90v, 96r, 98r, 103r, 105r, 110r, 116r. Full notes on this register (generously shared by Alejandro Planchart) confirm that the first inclusion of JSF occurs in the November 1443 list, as stated in most of the literature. Franz X. However José María Llorens Cisteró, “Cantores de los papas que ‘pontificaron’ en el siglo XV,” Anuario de estudios medievales 18 (1988): 605–26, on 615-6, states that both Lucas Warner (Garner) and Jo. Fede alias Sohier were first included in the list of “January 1443”.

[7] AD 59, 1 G 17, fol. 239.

[8] Lewis Lockwood, “Dufay and Ferrara,” in Dufay Quincentenary Conference: Brooklyn, NY, 1974, ed. Allan Atlas (New York: Department of Music Brooklyn College, 1974), 1-25, on 9 and 24-5 (docs 3a-c: Archivio di Stato di Modena, Reg. di Mandati, 1445-46, fol. 103v, 149, 214); Lewis Lockwood, Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400–1505 (New York: Oxford University Press, revised reprint 2009), 51-2, 57-9, 66-7, 278, 348; long n. 13 on 52 argues for one Fede, aged “about 25” in 1445.

[9] Alejandro Planchart, “Appendice of Cambrai's Petits vicaires” (forthcoming), refering to AD 59, 4G 7446, fol. 6r-6v, and Cambrai, Médiathèque, ms. 1058, fol. 77v.

[10] BnF, fr. 22392, fol. 271v, 272, 328v, cited by Michel Brenet, Les musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais (Paris: Picard, 1910 ; repr. Geneva: Minkoff, 1973), 32. The first payment reads “A messire Jehan Fede, qui a servi les quatre derrenieres sepmaines du quart terme de cest an comme chappellain de monseigneur maistre Herny [canon Henry Fresnoy], esquelles il a gaigné et dont il a esté payé 37s. 9d.p.”

[11] BnF, lat. 17059, piece no. 174, and fr. 28643 [Pièces Originales 2159], nos. 486-492 and 495 (July 1452 through February 1453), cited by André Pirro, Histoire de la musique de la fin du XIVe siècle à la fin du XVIe siècle (Paris: H. Laurens, 1940), 101 and Paula Higgins, ed., Chansonnier Nivelle de La Chaussée (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Rés. Vmc. ms. 57, ca 1460) (Geneva: Minkoff, 1984), v, xv, who notes that payment rolls from September 1451 through June 1452 are missing.

[12] Brussels, Archives Générales du Royaume, Charters of Brabant; see David Fallows, “Fedé, Johannes [Sohier, Jean],” New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd edn. (London: Macmillan, 2001).

[13] Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, “Fedé, Johannes, Jean Sohier dit Fede, Jean Fedé alias Sohier, Jean Phede, Jehan Zoiher(?),” MGG2, ed. Ludwig Finscher, Personenteil, vol 6 (Kassel; New York: Bärenreiter; Stuttgart: Metzler, 2001), 861–63; Higgins, Chansonnier, v-vi; André Lapeyre and Rémy Scheurer, Les notaires et secrétaires du roi sous les règnes de Louis XI, Charles VIII et Louis XII (1461–1515): Notices personelles et genealogies, 2 vols. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1978), vol. 1, 299.

[14] BnF, fr. 7853, 1420; see Leeman L. Perkins, “Musical Patronage at the Royal Court of France under Charles VII and Louis XI (1422-83),” Journal of the American Musicological Society 37 (1984): 507–566, on 529, 534, 549.

[15] Andrew Kirkman, “Johannes Sohier dit Fede and St. Omer: A Story of Pragmatic Sanctions,” in Fabrice Fitch and Jacobijn Kiel, eds., Essays on Music and Musicians in Honour of David Fallows: Bon jour, bon an, et bonne estraine (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011), 68-79.

[16] AD 59, 1 G 17, fol. 161v (see full transcription in Appendix 2, below).

[17] Kirkman, “Johannes Sohier dit Fede,” 73.

[18] Christopher Reynolds, Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter’s, 1380–1513 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 48 and 333; Franz Xaver Haberl, “Die römische ‘schola cantorum’ und die päpstlichen Kapellsänger bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts,” Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft 3 (1887): 189–296 (= Haberl Bst. III, 1888, 1-108; repr. Hidelsheim: G. Olms, 1971), lists “Fede, nostro Contratenoristae” among the singers at St Peter's; Robert Eitner, “Fede (Phede), Jehan, alias Sohier,” in Biographisch-bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten der christlichen Zeitrechnung bis zur Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Haertel, 1899-1904), vol. 3, 402, discounts the identification because the singers in St Peter’s were of a lower standard than those in the Sistine Chapel.

[19] Reynolds, Papal Patronage, 48 cites Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Reg. lat. 634, fols. 3r-4v (14 April 1466), identifying the singer as “Johannes Fede” and suggests he was still employed at St Peter’s.

[20] Jacques Le Vasseur, Annales de l’eglise cathedrale de Noyon (Paris: Robert Sara, 1633), 1323: “Estant a Rome par la commission du Chapitre pour la cause du corps de sainct Eloy, il [Guillaume Bouillé, dean of the Noyon cathedral] résigna en 1466 sa Chanoinie à son serviteur Sohier, ou Fedé, par un certain desplaisir d’avoir esté revoqué par lesdits de Chapitre, & un autre subrogé en sa place.”

[21] BnF, n.a.l. 1534, f. 105v, 117v; Archives départementales du Cher, 8 G 1654. Paula Higgins, “Tracing the Careers of Late Medieval Composers: The Case of Philippe Basiron of Bourges,” Acta Musicologica 62 (1990): 1–28.

[22] BnF, fr. 20685, 623, 631, and fr. 32511, f. 343; see Perkins, “Musical Patronage,” 534-5, 555, 557, Appendix II no. 38.

[23] Jacques Le Vasseur, Annales de l’eglise cathedrale de Noyon (Paris: Robert Sara, 1633), 165-66. Since Sixtus’ pontificate started only in August 1471 and since Charles II of Bourbon was created cardinal only in December 1476, it seems more likely that the intended date was “octante & vn”, 1481. The only other know indulgence issued by this prelate is dated 1482; he apparently spent most of the early 1480s living in Paris; see Antoine Péricaud, Notice sur Charles de Bourbon: cardinal-archevêque de Lyon, 1446-1488 (Lyon: A. Vingtrinier, 1855), 36-38.

[24] Ernest Thoinan, ed. Deploration de Guillaume Crétin sur le trepas de Jean Okeghem (Paris: A. Claudin 1864), 33.

ANNEXE 2

Archival references to Johannes Sohier alias Fede (JSF) and his father (JSF senior) from the collegiate church of Saint-Amé, Douai

The Archives départementales du Nord in Lille (F-AD 59) preserve a complete series of registers and documents of the collegiate church of Saint-Amé, Douai (which is all the more remarkable given that almost all the archives of the more important chapter of Saint-Pierre are lost). The two potentially most important series for the history of music are the accounts of the vicars (adult singers of the church) and the registers of capitular acts. Other series might yield further details.

1. Vicars’ Accounts

An almost complete series of accounting registers of the vicars is preserved. These folios include tri-monthly payments to the vicars who served in the church from 1324. The accounting year (in these accounts) starts on June 24. Bruno Bouckaert, who spent considerable time studying these materials, drew up a table of all lists from the 14th and 15th centuries, which he has very generously shared. According to Bouckaert, the name JSF appears in two registers: F-AD 59, 1 G 2211 (1438–1439) and 1 G 2212 (1440–1441). Fortunately, the register for 1439–1440, missing in Lille, appears in a collection of various accounting registers now in Paris (F-Pnm, fr. 6737, fols. 17–24v, accessible on Gallica at  http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90606995/f43.item).[1] These twelve lists (four from each year) yield the following information.

• JSF was paid from mid-June 1438 as a vicar.
• On the 4 lists for accounting year 1438–1439, JSF’s name simply appears as “” From the first list of the following year, 1439–1440, it appears as “Sire Jehan Phede.”
• In the 1440–1441 account, “Sire Jehan Fede” appears only for the first 3 terms.

The two registers of chapter acts from Saint-Amé, Douai, preserved (with lacunae) from the 1430s through to the 1470s, corroborate these facts, and add further information about JSF:

• He was the son of the verger (church warden) of Saint-Amé, who was a layman also named “Jean Sohier alias Fede.”
• He acted as master of the choirboys during some of the time he was paid as a vicar, notably around November 1440.
• He obtained a chaplaincy in October 1439, which he kept until June 1464, although apparently without ever being a resident chaplain, at least not after 1441.
• He was ordained a priest between February and June 1440.
• He shared with several of his colleagues a rather violent temperament.

Below is a list of each mention of JSF in the two registers. In the interests of space, most entries are summarized, with full transcription provided only for the most informative references; translation is provided where needed.

1. AD 59, 1 G 16: Register of chapter deliberations, November 1434–July 1441

JSF Senior is present as verger from 1434, appearing as a witness for innumerable acts. No mention of him in the previous register (1 G 15, 1408–1424). No mention of JSF Junior in this register before late October 1439, even though we know he served as a vicar by June 1438 (according to the vicar’s accounts, noted above). JSF Junior is not mentioned in the chapter acts because the only matter that would concern him here might be the collations of chaplaincies, and indeed, this is the context in which he is first mentioned.

• 27 October 1439. Obtains the chaplaincy at the altar of Ste-Catherine in St-Amé, Douai, made vacant by the death of Nicaise de La Place (fol.124v)

fol. 124v <margin:> Collatio capellanie

Die vicesimasepta mensis octobris anno domini m° cccc° xxxix°, prefati venerabiles et circumspecti domini capitulum hujus ecclesie in suo capitulari loco, hora et modo consuetis ad capitulandum congregati, capellaniam chorialem ipsius ecclesie sitam et fundatam ad altare beate Katherine in eadem ecclesiam ad eorum collationem et omnimodam dispositionem spectantem et pertinentem nunc et de novo liberam et vacantam per mortem seu obitum discreti viri domini Nichasii de Platea, dicte capellanie ultimi possessoris, discreto viro Johanne Sohier alias Fede, clerico vicario eiusdem ecclesie, cum omnibus suis juribus et pertinentiis meritorum ac servitiorum suorum intuitu contulerunt et assignaverunt sibi que de eadem providerunt ac in corporalem realiter actualem possessionem capellanie et jurium ac pertinentium predictorum eumdem posuerunt et induxerunt assignaverunt sibi per dominum Johannem Du Fay, canonicum, locum sive stallum in choro prestitum tamen prius per eumdem Johannem juramento per capellanos dicte ecclesie prestari solito adhibitis solemnitatibus in talibus adhiberi solitis et consuetis et jure cuiuslibet semper salvo de quibus idem Johannes petiit a me notario instrumentum unum seu plura instrumenta. Actum ubi supra dictum est tam in choro quam in capitulo presentibus me Johanne Lauroy notario publico et venerabilibus dominis Jacobo Descaillon, magistro Petro Le Werin et Guillelmo Goubet presbiteris dicte ecclesie Sancti Amati capellanis perpetuis testibus ad hec vocatis specialiter et rogatis.

<signed:> Roy

• 4 November 1439. Receives by permutation the chaplaincy of the parish church of Vitry, in exchange for one at the altar of St-Pierre in St-Amé, Douai (fol.129v)
• 19 December 1439. Imprisoned for violence against his vicar colleague Denis Margas, then Bishop of Fools; JSF is fined (fol.132)

fol. 132 <Margin:> Emenda gagiata

Dictis die [19 December 1439] et hora, paulo post, Johannes Le Sohier, vicarius dicte ecclesie qui propter quosdam excessus prisonarius erat gagiavit emendam in manibus dictorum dominorum de capitulo occasione et causa huius quod ipse injuriando animo ut videbatur quemdam ensem evaginavit et percutere voluit dominum Dionisium Margas, etiam vicarium dicte ecclesie et tunc episcopum fatuorum venerabilem, sibique injurias ac alia dixit. De quadam quidem gagiatione dicti domini de capitulo mihi preceperunt fieri registrum.

<Signed:> Jo Fabri

On the said day [19 December 1439] and hour, a little after, Johannes Le Sohier, vicar of the said church who, because of some excesses was kept prisoner, paid a fine[2] into the hands of the said lords of the chapter, on the occasion and for the cause that he, in an obvious injurious mood, took his sword out of its sheath and wanted to hit sire Dionysius Margas, also a vicar of said church and at that time venerable Bishop of Fools, and spoke insults and other things. And of this payment of the fine, the said lords of the chapter here asked me to take record.

• 3 February, 1440. Clerk chaplain of the chapel of St-Nicolas, Vitry, in the diocese of Arras, he resigns this benefice to Robert Du Hem (fol.133v)
• 10 June, 1440. First mention of JSF as priest: he is procureur (representative) of a certain “domini Michaeli de Veteriluchosa” [Vieux-Leuze, Hainaut] concerning the resignation from a chapel of the parish church of Ecourt (fol.140v)
• 24 June, 1440. Annual chapter meeting. JSF is one of 6 chaplains presenting themselves as resident for the first time (fol.143v). He is tasked to celebrate a mass in the ‘capella retro chorum’ (fol.144v)
• 14 November, 1440. The chapter grants JSF Senior and JSF Junior (his son who is a priest) a gift of 12 l.p., on the condition that the latter continues to fulfill his obligations as “maître des enfants” until the Feast of St-Martin, in November, 1441 (fol.148v)

fol. 148v

Le 14^e jour du mois de novembre l’an 1440 comparurent par devant my, notaire apres escript, Jehan Sohier dit Fede, sujet de messeigneurs de capitle de ceste eglise, et sire Jehan Sohier, prestre, son fil, lesquelz de leurs bonnes volentés dirent et chascun d’eulx dist avoir recheu de mesdits seigneurs de capitle le somme de 12 livres parisis monnoie de Flandres que donnoient yceulx seigneurs audit sire Jehan ou cas qu’il serroit demourant en ladicte eglise jusques a le Saint Martin prochain apres venant oudit novembre 1441 en faisant son devoir des enfans de ceur apprendre et maintenir ainsi qu’il faisoit audit jour de ceste recognoissance, et s’il advenoit que ledit sire Jehan ne fust demourant comme dist est et qu’il laissast lesdits enfans en my plain, ledit Jehan pere et son fil et chascun d’eulx comme dist est ont promis sur l’obligation de tous leurs biens et par leur foy delivrer, rendre, restituer et payer a mesdits seigneurs toute ycelle somme de douse livres monnoie dicte, toute fraude et force cessant, ce fu fait en le maison ou demeure messire Jehan Du Canguich, chantre d’icelle eglise, presens monseigneur maistre Simon Bante, doyen de l’eglise saint-Pierre, sire Wibert Boullart, prestres, Colin Le Groul, clerc, tesmoings ad ce appelés et me notario.

<signed:> Jo Fabri.

On 14 November, 1440 stood before me, notary hereafter named, Jehan Sohier alias Fede, subject to my lords of the chapter of this church, and sire Jehan Sohier, priest, his son, who, with good will, said, and each of them said, they had received form my said lords of the chapter the sum of 12 livres parisis from Flanders which these lords gave to the said sire Jehan if he remain in the said church until the next Feast of Saint Martin in November 1441, doing his duty of teaching and taking care of the choirboys as he is doing on the said day of this acknowledgement (of debt); and if it happened that the said sire Jehan does not remain as is said, and that he abandon altogether the said children, the said Jehan father et his son and each of them, as is said, promised, on the obligation of all their belongings and on their faith, to deliver, give back, restitute and pay to my said lords all the sum of 12 livres of the said money, all fraud and force ceasing. This was done in the house where resides sire Jehan Du Canguich, cantor of this church, in the presence of my lord master Simon Bante, dean of the church of Saint-Pierre, sire Wibert Boullart, priests, Colin Le Groul, cleric, witnesses to this contract and my notary.

• 21 February, 1441. JSF recognized a debt of 8 livres, which he owed to Jean Du Jardin, chaplain of St-Pierre, Douai (fol.150)

There are many lacunae in the accounts for the years 1445–1450. The next register makes clear that JSF Junior was never thereafter a resident chaplain, and he made only one appearance before the chapter, in 1453. This register also shows that JSF Senior died after August 1453.

2. AD 59, 1 G 17: Register of chapter deliberations, April 1445–September 1467

• 24 June, 1445. Request made for JSF’s non-residency in the year to come by his representative, JSF Senior, his father (fol.239)
• 24 June, 1446. Same procedure as the previous year, but this time the request is made by the dean, in the name of JSF Senior, representative of JSF (fol. 253v)
• 24 June, 1453. Request made for JSF’s non-residency in the year to come by his representative, chaplain Jacques Descaillon (fol. 4v)
• 19–22 August, 1453. Although JSF made his request for non-residency on 24 June, he is clearly in Douai two months later, summoned by the chapter for acts of violence against his colleague, vicar and newly-arrived chaplain Jean Louvel (fols. 8v–9). On 22 August, JSF was sentenced to make apologies, then undertake a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Boulogne, followed by another to Saint-Gilles (fols. 9–9v)

fol. 8v. <margin:> Submissio Jo. Fede super quibusdam expressibus

Die 19^a mensis Augusti anno domini 1453, coram venerabilibus dominis meis de capitulo de mane ad sonum capitularis campane congregatis, constitutus ac comparens discretus vir Johannes Fede, accusatus erga dictos dominos meos a modico tempore citra, manus violenter injecisse in personam domini Johannis Louvel, presbiteri, dicte sancti Amati <above the line: ecclesie> capellani, quodquidem in dictorum dominorum meorum et ecclesie predictorum grave scandalum cedit et gravamen nisi de remedio provideretur opportuno; qua grave accusatione a dicto Fede audita, respondit dictus Fede et confessus <above the line: fuit> coram dictis dominis meis in hunc modum, videlicet: O quod benefactum esset domine Johannes si vobis daretur tres aut quatuor ictus baculi aliqualiter de quodam parvo baculo quem suis tenebat in manibus super collum ipsius domini Johannis attingento. Quibus vero auditis, dominus Johannes de Saint Genoix, scolasticus, petiit et interrogavit dicto Fede utrum pro illis expressibus et maleficis ordini dominorum meorum de capitulo stare vellet et obedire, quiquidem reus respondit et obtulit se peritum dictorum dominorum omnimodo ordini stare et obedire ut promittitur et hoc sub pena [9] vinginti librarum parisiensium monnete regie fabrice dicte ecclesie sancti Amati casu quo deffectuosus circa premissa reperiretur applicanda. Ad quem vero ordinem pronuntiandum assignata extitit dies dicto Fede, reo, ad 20^am diem capitularem sequentem, Presentibus in dicto capitulo Johanne de Fierin, baillivo et Petro Bruyant dictorum dominorum meorum procuratore, testibus.

<signed:> N. Pourcelleti

On 19 August 1453, before my venerable lords of the chapter assembled in the morning at the sound of the chapter’s bell, stood and appeared the discrete man Johannes Fede, charged in front of my said lords to have, some time before, violently laid hands on the person of sire Johannes Louvel, priest, chaplain of the said church of Saint-Amé, which resulted in great scandal and disturbance for my said lords and church if a proper answer (cure) would not be brought to it; and once this serious accusation had been heard by the said Fede, the said Fede answered and confessed in front of my said lords in this way, the following: ‘Oh, how good it would be, sire Johannes, if I would give you three or four blows of a stick with that kind of little stick’, which he held in his hands touching upon the neck of this sire Johannes. Those words having been heard, sire Johannes de Saint-Genoix, scholaster, asked and interrogated the said Fede about whether he wanted to remain and obey to the order of my said lords of the chapter, which this defendant answered and offered that he would remain and obey in every way the order of my said lords of the chapter, as promised; and this on pain of a fine of 20 livres parisis royal money to be paid to the fabric of the said church of Saint-Amé in Douai in case that any misdemeanour towards the above said things was discovered. To which order to be pronounced to the said Fede, defendant, was assigned the day into the 20 following capitular days. Present in the said chapter, Johannes de Fierin, baillif, and Petrus Bruyant, procurator of my said lords, witnesses.

<margin:> Compdemnatio Jo Fede super quibusdam expressibus

Die 21^a mensis Augusti anno domini 1453, coram venerabilibus dominis meis de capitulo, hora solita in dicto capitulo congregatis, comparentibus domino Johanne Louvel, actore ex una, et Johanne Fede, reo ex altera, quequidem dies assignata erat ad pronuntiandum ordinem dictorum dominorum. Habita vero prius deliberatione matura inter dictos dominos meos super huiusmodi gravaminibus ac offensis et ne posteris cedat in usum huiusmodi deffectus commitendo, non obstante tamen quod dicti domini mei mete et gratiose cum dicto reo se habere volebant. Actentis serviciis per Johannem Fede, patrem dicti rei et per dictum reum ecclesie et suppositis eiusdem hactenus impensis; et que imposterum impedire posset considerato etiam maxime quod dictus reus ignorabat dictum dominum Johannem, capellanum dicte ecclesie fore et pluribus aliis excusationibus per dictum reum allegatis per organum venerabilis viri magistri Johannis de St Genoix, scolastici nomine capituli / auditis confessionibus dicti rei condempnatus extitit dictus reus / supra dictis dominis decano et capitulo, necnon predicto domino Johanni actori veniando flexis genibus postulare, necnon limina beate Marie de Bolonia peregre visitare ac arripere iter infra octo dies proximo sequentes ac literas certifficationis dictis dominis in dicto capitulo repportare / et postmodum infra duos menses proximo sequentes a die dicti regressus peregre proficisti ac visitare limina beati Egidii in provincia et literas certifficatonis ut proficitur repportare [9v] et dominis meis supradictis presentare. Moderatione tamen dominorum meorum super premissis reservata qui si quidem ordinationi ac sententie predictis parere promisit Et adstatim dictus Johannes Fede reus realiter et de facto genibus flexis dictis dominis decano et capitulo necnon domino Johanne supradicto veniando postulavit. Presentibus ibidem discretis viris dominis Petro Muguet, Johanne de Lannoyt, Jacobo Clerici, Nicasio Le Werin, presbiteris dicte ecclesie capellanis, et Johanne des Mares, dicti capituli serviente, testibus ad premissa vocatis.

<signed:> Ita est N Pourcellet

The following 11 references are all annual requests of non-residency :

• 24 June, 1454. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his representative, chaplain Jacques Descaillon (fol.20)
• 24 June, 1455. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his representative, chaplain Jacques Descaillon (fol.35v)
• 24 June, 1456. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his (new) representative, chaplain Jean d’Aisseville alias Cressonier (fol.57v)
• 24 June, 1457. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his (new) representative, chaplain Jean d’Aisseville alias Cressonier (fol.84)
• 24 June, 1458. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his representative, canon Jean d’Aisseville alias Cressonier (fol.99)
• 24 June, 1459. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his representative, canon Jean d’Aisseville alias Cressonier (fol.108v)
• 24 June, 1460. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his representative, canon Jean d’Aisseville alias Cressonier (fol.117v)
• 24 June, 1461. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his representative, canon Jean d’Aisseville alias Cressonier (fol.126)
• 24 June, 1462. Request by his representative, canon Toussaint Valet, for JSF’s privilege of non-residency the following year, signed Marie, Queen of France (fol.135)
• 24 June, 1463. The canon Toussaint Valet requests the privilege of non-residency for JSF for the following year, signed Marie, Queen of France. The name of the beneficiary is missing, but there is no possible confusion (fol.145)
• 24 June, 1464. Request for JSF’s non-residency the following year by his representative, canon Toussaint Valet (fol.160v)
• 27 June, 1464. Present in front of the chapter, JSF resigns his chaplaincy at the altar of Sainte-Catherine to the benefit of Johannes Lestienart, clerk from the diocese of Arras (fol. 161v):

Die 27a mensis junii anno Domini 1464 coram venerabili et circumspectis viris dominis meis et magistris in eorum loco capitulari post sonum campane congregatis, constitutus in propria persona dominus Johannes Sohier alias Fede, capellanus capellanie chorialis et vicarialis seu reservate deserviri solite et fundate ad altare beate Katerine in ista ecclesia, hujusmodi capellaniam cum juribus et pertinentiis suis universis in manibus dominorum meorum pure, libere et simpliciter resignavit, petens hujusmodi resignationem admitti, quam predicti domini mei gratiose admiserunt et postmodum Johannes Lestienart, clericus Attribatensis diocesis, hujusmodi capellaniam, ut premititur, vacantem cum juribus et pertinentiis sibi petiit conferi. Qua de causa habita matura deliberatione inter predictos dominos meos, hujusmodi capellaniam, ut premititur, vacantem predicto Johanni Lestienart, clerico, intuitu pietatis meritorumque suorum contulerunt sibique de eadem providerunt inducendo ipsum in predicte capellanie juriumque et pertinentiis universis possessionem corporalem, realem at actualem, stallum in choro in bassis sedibus in sinistra parte chori sibi assignari fecerunt, prestito primitus juramento in talibus consueto, adhibitis sollemnitatibus in talibus adhiberi consuetis, presentibus tam in capitulo quam in choro dominis Jacobo Ridoul, Martino Hanicotte, presbiteris predicte ecclesie capellanis, Johanne dez Mares, cliente, et me, testibus ad premissa vocatis et rogatis.

<signed:> Ita est T. Valet

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[1] This register was already known to André Pirro, who refers to JSF’s appearance there in his Histoire de la musique de la fin du XIVe siècle à la fin du XVIe siècle (Paris: H. Laurens, 1940), 101.

[2] For this usage of “emendam gagiare,” see Charles Du Fresne, sieur Du Cange, Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis (Niort: L. Fabre, 1883–1887), accessed online (on 22 April, 2014): http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/EMENDA1#EMENDA1-7