Petrus Paulus [Pietro Paolo]  Mastaing [Remigius, de Remigius] {Julius II-Leo X}

Rome; in St. Peter’s (July 1496-February 1498); earliest reference (as a papal singer), bull dated 26 April 1509; mentioned in the Introitus et Exitus: October 1509; unpublished  beneficial documents : RS 1008, fol. 237v: supplication dated 14 August 1494; RV 973, fols. 76r-79v: bull dated 26 April 1509; RS 1330, fol. 87v: supplication dated 7 November 1509; RS 1334, fols. 187v-188r: supplication dated 18 December 1509; RS 1383, fols. 26r-26v: supplication dated 4 March 1512; RS 1338, fol. 183r: supplication dated 6 February 1510; RS 1342, fol. 48v: supplication dated 21 March1510; RS 1351, fols. 215r-215v: supplication dated 17 July 1510; RS 1345, fols. 141r-141v: supplication dated 7 April 1510; RS 1348, fols. 110v-111r: supplication dated 3 June1510; RS 1348, fols. 303v-304r: supplication dated 12 June 1510; RS 1352, fols.. 101v-102r: supplication dated 27 May1510; RS 1349, fol. 239v: supplication dated 5 July 1510; RS 1354, fols. 247v-248r: supplication dated 16 August 1510; RS 1362, fols. 222v-223r: supplication dated 13 April 1511; RS 1377, fol. 67v: supplication dated 4 December 1511; RS 1378, fol. 238v: supplication dated 26 January 1512; RS 1394, fols. 113v-114r: supplication dated 21 July 1512; RS 1396, fols. 24r-24v: supplication dated 7 October 1512; LR 13, fol. 233v: entry dated 23 October 1512; RS 1400, fols. 29r-29v: supplication dated 1 December 1512; LR 14, fol. 31r: entry dated 5 December 1512; RS 1407, fols. 272v-273r: supplication dated 16 April 1513; LR 15, fol. 175v: entry dated 24 April 1514; LR 25, fol. 22r: entry dated 7 May 1519; See FREY  for bulls dated 19 March 1513 and April 15, 1518.

Mastaing, who in several supplications is granted the dispensationem ad defectum natalium because he was the illegitimate son of a cleric, was almost certainly the illegitimate son of the papal singer Remigius de Mastaing (hence the occasional appellation "Petrus Paulus Remigius" that led  FREY  to believe that there were two singers named Petrus Paulus). He was born in Rome and took the place left vacant in the choir upon his father’s death in 1509, a rare, if not unique, occurrence in the history of the papal singers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: FREY  (1955): 192-193; REYNOLDS, Christopher. Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter’s 1380-1513 (Berkeley, 1995), p. 335.