Nicholaus Foncher {Leo X}
Earliest reference, bull of 1 November 1517; payments as a member of the musici segreti : November 1517 -August 1518 ; see FREY for bulls dated 1 November 1517 and 26 December 1518 .
It is just possible that Foncher is the same person as Nicholas Fochier ; they have the same first name, and both received benefices in Avignon. On the other hand, Foncher is called "cantor secretus" in documents of 1517 while Fochier is called "cantor capellanus" in documents of the same year (see Fochier).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: FREY (1956): 49