Egidius [Gilles] Charpentier {Julius II-Leo X}
Amiens; earliest reference, mandati list of June 1508; mandati : June and October 1508, February 1509; motu proprio of [August] 1514; unpublished beneficial documents : RS 1311, fols. 237r-237v: supplication dated February 1, 1509; RS 1324, fol. 172r: supplication dated August 23, 1509; RS 1333, fols. 195r-195v: supplication dated December 5, 1509; RS 1411, fol. 1r: supplication dated May 11, 1513; RS 1324, fol. 168v: supplication dated August 29, 1509; RS 1327, fol. 180v: supplication dated October 5, 1509; RV 951, fols. 195r-196r: bull dated October 13, 1509; RS 1330, fols. 75r-75v: supplication dated October 8, 1509; RS 1361, fol. 231r: supplication dated April 11, 1511; RS 1329, fol. 154v: supplication dated November 5, 1509; RS 1333, fol. 275v: supplication dated December 14, 1509; RS 1336, fols. 156v-157r: supplication dated January 10, 1510; RS 1338, fols. 96r-96v: supplication dated February 8, 1510; RS 1338, fol. 147v: supplication dated February 7, 1510; RS 1339, fol. 225v: supplication dated February 21, 1510; RS 1388, fol. 298v: supplication dated January 22, 1512; RS 1380, fol. 229v : supplication dated February 13, 1512; RS 1397, fols. 219v-220r: supplication dated November 10, 1512; RS 1399. fols. 157v-158r: supplication dated November 10, 1512; RS 1409, fol. 111v: supplication dated April 7, 1513; RS 1423, fol. 152v: supplication dated September 6, 1513; RS 1426, fol. 208r: supplication dated September 12, 1513; RS 1426, fol. 213r: supplication dated September 24, 1513; RS 1427, fols. 111v-112r: supplication dated October 5, 1513; RS 1440, fols. 69v-70r: supplication dated January 30, 1514; RS 1445, fols. 96v: supplication dated February 24, 1514; See FREY for bulls dated March 19, 1513; May 11, 1513; August 15, 1513; September 22, 1514; January 31, 1515; September 11, 1515; April 5, 1516; April 21, 1516; September 2, 1519.
On 21 February 1510, Charpentier announced his intention of leaving Rome and asked to keep the privileges of papal singers while he was away. He went to France where he joined the chapel of Anne de Bretagne, Queen of France. He returned to Rome in 1514. In 1517, he was back in the French royal chapel (the papal bull of 2 September 1519 no longer refers to him as cantor capellanus).
DOCUMENTS
mandati 859
108r
undated motu proprio [the motu proprio on 107v is dated 2 April 1514]
Motu proprio etc. Tibi dilecto filio Ferdinando Ponzetto thesaurario nostro generali committimus & mandamus quatenus statim visis presntibus Egidio Carpentier et Petro Jouault alias Brule & cuilibet eorum octo ducatos auri in auro de camera pro presentis mensis augusti salario necnon Bernardo Benedicti ac Vincentio Nuzano et Petro de Vian dilectis filiis cantoribus nostris nuper in capella nostra per nos receptis et ducatos similes duodecim videlicet eorum cuilibet quatuor pro eorum presentis mensis augusti salario et alias continuando aliis singulis mensibus et sequentis temporibus furutris eorum salaria et emolumenta per cantores capellanos percipi solita persolvere seu persolvi facere & mandare debeas realiter et cum effectu in contrarium faciendum non obstantibus quibuscumque.
Placet et ita manu propria mandamus J
Coll. F. d. Attavantis
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