Franciscus  Goes [Ghoust, Zelandus, Ormandus] 

Cambrai; earliest reference,  mandati  list of May 1534 ;  mandati : May  1534 -December  1539 ;  died  in Rome on 26 November  1539,  was buried the next day in Campo Santo, and his beneficese were distributed to other members of the chapel on 29 November.

Although Goes possessed benefices in the diocese of Cambrai, he was one of the married singers; in January 1540, the singers agreed to give the salary Goes would have gotten in December 1539 to his children to help defray the expenses of the funeral.

DOCUMENTS

DS 1

114v: entry dated 25 November 1539 [CASIMIRI (1926), p. 263]

Jo. Le Conte impeditus propter testamentum Francisci Goes qui laborabat in extremis.

114v: entry dated 26 November 1539 [CASIMIRI (1926), p. 263]

Jo. le Conte et Ghislenus impediti, cum supradicto Goes qui eodem die mortuus est.

114v: entry dated 27 November 1539 [CASIMIRI (1926), p. 263]

Fuit sepultus Francisci Goes, Zelandus, in Campo Sancto, cujus anima requiescat in pace; omnes fuerunt presentes exceptis Constantio infirmus.

115r: entry dated 29 November 1539 [CASIMIRI (1926), p. 263]

Finita messa et officio, congregatis iam omnibus cantoribus super dispositionem benefitiorum vacantium per obitum quondam Francisci Goes, de quibus Io. le Conte presentatus fuerat ad dispositionem capelle, contulerunt Io. Biasiron capellaniam Sancti N. de Vorselare, Cameracensis diocesisi, valorem xii ducatorum. Ghisilino Dancherts parochialem ecclesiam de Werchene Tornacensis dioc. valoris xviii ducatorum cum pensione 4 ducatorum per Lohial. Joanni Leconte parochialem de Rancourt, Cameracensis diocesis, 60 ducatorum hoc totum id et quidquid inde veniret, dividerte cum Genesio pro medietate.

119r: entry dated 7 January 1540 [CASIMIRI (1926), p. 267]

Finita missa, convocatis cantoribus, decanus proposuit ut salarium domini Francisci Goes, istius mensis preteriti, amore Dei et elemosinaliter darent filiis ejusdem Francisci pro sustentione illarum defalcatis primo expensis factis in eiusdem exequiis ad quod omnes libentissime conentierunt preter Ordognes cui data est pars sibi contingens .

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 96; VANDER   STRAETEN, Edmond. La Musique aux Pays Bas , vol. VI (Brussells, 1882), pp. 411, 416-418.