Johannes [Jean] Bonnevin [Beausseron] {Leo X-Paul III}
Alto; Chartres [Chenou]; in the Sainte Chapelle of Paris, 1511 ; earliest reference, motu proprio of [June 1514 ]; receipt lists of [ 1525-26] and December 1526 ; mandati : July-September 1529 , April 1530 -October 1531 , May 1532 -June 1542 ; unpublished beneficial documents : LR 22. fol. 118r: entry dated 30 January 1520 , LR 25, fol.: entry dated 18 May 1520 , RV 1436, fols. 301r-392r: bull dated 31 August 1522 , RV 1335, fol. 417r-418v: bull dated 27 April 1528; RV 1448, fols. 233r-234r: bull dated 21 September 1529 ; see FREY (1955) for bulls dated 19 July 1516 , 31 July 1516 , 15 February 1517 , 26 September 1518 , 8 October 1520 , 12 May 1521 , 1 July 1521 , (1956): 415 for a bull dated 1 November 1517 ; see LLORENS, pp. 10-11 for mention of other benefices died in Rome on 22 May 1542 , was buried the next day, probably in San Luigi dei Francesi, where a funeral Mass was celebrated on 5 June1542.
Beausseron was a composer of a few works, all preserved in VatS manuscripts: Missa de Beata Virgine in VatS 19, fols. 3v-24r. Missa de Feria in VatS 55, fols. 69v-76r. Credo Inviolata 5 v. (another version of the Credo of the Missa de Beata Virgine ) VatS 55, fols. 26v-31r. Domine non secundum in VatS 55, fols. 122v-125r. Regina coeli in VatS 13, fols. 169v-171r. Regina coeli in VatG XII.4, fols. 18v-20r. Salve regina in VatS 19, fols. 130v-134r.
DOCUMENTS
ASV, Div. Cam. 63, fol. 267r: undated motu proprio [June 1514 ] [partially transcribed in FREY (1955), p. 71]
Leo Papa X
Motu proprio etc. Venerabili fratri nostro Raphaeli Episcopo Ostiensis Camerario et dilectis filiis thesaurario et depositario ac camere apostolice clericis et in ibi presidentibus mandamus quatenus dliectos filios Johannem Bonnevin et Georgium Levasseur quos nuper in nostros et et capelle nostre cantores capellanos recepimus in rotulo seu mandato ceterorum cantorum et capellanorum nostrorum per cantoribus et capellanis nostris describitis et describi ac eosdem inter ceteros quoad salaria et emolumenta nostros cantoribus dare consueta admittatis et admitti faciatis bocis et vestrum cuilibet mandantes ut exiunt salarium mensis junii fere decresi aliis cantoribus nostris exolutum eisdem Joahnni et Georgio persolvatis et persolui faciatis, ac deinceps illud idem salarium eisdem cantoribus nostris solui consuetum prout moris est absque mora persolvatis et persolui mandetis non obstantibus omnibus et singulis constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis ac quibuscunque aliis mandatis aliis capelle nostre cantoribus concessis in contrariium facientem quorum omnium tenores pro expressis haberi volumus ac illis specialiter et expresse derogamus.
Placet et ita motu proprio mandamus J
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24r: entry dated 22 May 1542 [CASIMIRI (1932), p. 260]
Eodem die obiit bone memoriae Jo. Bonnevin alias Beausseron: morte repentina cuius anima cum beatis requiescat.
25r: entry dated 23 May 1542 [CASIMIRI (1932), p. 261]
Eodem die sepultus est dominus Beausseron.
25v: entry dated 5 June 1542 [CASIMIRI (1932), p. 261
Eodem die fuerunt exequiae defuncti Beausseron ad Sanctum Ludovicum.
27r: entry dated 17 July 1542 [CASIMIRI (1932), p. 262]
Eodem die cantavimus missam ad Sanctum Ludovicum pro anima Beausseron.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: HABERL; CELANI, p. 93; Michel BRENET, Les Musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais , Paris 1910, Alphonse Picard et Fils, 61. CASIMIRI; FREY (1955), pp. 71, 179-180; JOSEPHSON, Nors S. "The Missa de Beata Virgine of the Sixteenth Century ," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1970. LLORENS, Jose "Cantores pontificios colegas de Cristóbal de Morales," Inter-American Music Review , 10 (1989): 3-18.