Jan Gruter

fl. 1491-1509†

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Biography

Sint Servaes of Maastricht, 1491
Tenor in the church of Sint Servaas in 1491 (personal communication PCR from Eugeen Schreurs).

Papal chapel, 1501-1509
Singer and chaplain in the papal chapel from January 1501 to June 1509 under the pontificates of Alexander VI and Julius II. Gruter, a cleric of the diocese of Liège (clericus leodiensis diocesis) was probably born in or near Maastricht in the Germanic language area of the diocese, and was a member of the German Confraternity of the Campo Santo in Rome in 1501-02 (Pietschmann 2002). Pope Julius II provided him with a canonry and prebend in Sint Servaas and expectatives in the dioceses of Halberstadt, Liège, Utrecht and Tournai on 1.3.1506 (Archivio di Stato di Roma Camerale I 1104, fols. 56r-56v) ; this document also grants him a dispensation ad defectum natalium (because of illegitimate birth). There is no evidence that Gruter actually took possession of the canonry in Sint Servaas, however. Gruter was in possession of a canonry and prebend in the cathedral of Liège since he agreed in 1507 to pay the papal singer Paolo Trotti a pension from the fruits of that benefice (Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Libri Resignationum, 11, fol. 93v: entry dated 24 September 1507) and probably had possession the deanship of the church of St. Martin in the diocese of Münster when he obligated himself to pay the Annate on the fruits of that benefice in 1509 (Archivio di Stato di Roma, Camerale I, 1142, fol. 37r: entry dated 7 August 1509). Papal documents record requests for benefices in the cathedral of Halberstadt (ASV, Registra Supplicationum 1293: entry dated 21 April 1508; ASV, RS 1298, fols. 69r-70r: entry dated 21 July 1508), in the church of Beata Maria in the diocese of Halberstadt (ASV, RS 1324, fol. 60r: entry dated 14 August 1509), and in the cathedral of Strassbourg (ASV, Registra Supplicationum 1287, fol. 2r: entry dated 3 April 1508) but Gruter did not take possession of these benefices. He died in Rome before 14 June 1509, the date of the first document requesting a benefice vacant because of his death (ASV, RS 1319, fols. 226v–227r: entry dated 14 June 1509).

Sherr Richard

Information

  • Roles

    Illegitimate birth
    Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
    Member of a church (musician)
    Member of a court chapel (musician)
    Singer
    Tenor

  • Gender

    Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)

4 in database

Geographical origins

Maastricht (Netherlands)

Musical position

Member of a church (musician)
1491
Maastricht (Netherlands)


Institution: Sint-Servaasbasiliek van Maastricht, Maastricht (Netherlands)

Musical position

Member of a court chapel (musician)
1501-01/1509-06
Città del Vaticano (Vatican City State)


Institution: Papal chapel, Città del Vaticano (Vatican City State)

Religious position

Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
before 1507-09
Liège (Belgium)


Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Lambert de Liège, Liège (Belgium)

Death

1509-06-14
Città del Vaticano (Vatican City State)

Variant names

Gruter (die) ; Grutter

Associated people

No associated person.

Bibliography

[Haberl 1887]

Haberl, F. X., 1887, Die römische ‘schola cantorum’ und die päpstlichen Kapellsänger bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts, Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 3, p. 189‑296 http://lccn.loc.gov/68129303.

[Pietschmann 2000]

Pietschmann, K., 2000, Deutsche Musiker und Lautenmacher im Rom der Renaissance: Spuren im Campo Santo Teutonico und der deutschen Nationalkirche Santa Maria dell’Anima, Pirckheimer Jahrbuch für Renaissance-und Humanismusforschung, 15/16, p. 181‑213.

[Schreurs PCR]

Schreurs, E., 2008, Contribution directe à la Prosopographie des chantres de la Renaissance / Direct contribution to the Prosopography of Renaissance Singers.

[Sherr 1975]

Sherr, R., 1975, The papal chapel, ca. 1492-1513, and its polyphonic sources, Thèse de doctorat soutenue à S.l., 1975, pays inconnu, 1975 http://www.sudoc.fr/051847728 (consulté le 22 janvier 2013).

[Sherr PCR]

Sherr, R., 2008, Contribution directe à la Prosopographie des chantres de la Renaissance / Direct contribution to the Prosopography of Renaissance Singers.

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Fiala David - Project manager

Sherr Richard - Biography author

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