Simon Mellet

fl. 1431-1481†

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Biographie

Vatican, papal curia, 1431-1440
A petition by Cardinal Nicolas of Forli [sic, but see PCR editor's comment on corresponding event and patron] on 10 October 1436 mentions that Mellet had been in his service at least since 24 April 1431 (V-CVaav, ASV, RS 329, f. 183-184v), which indicates that Mellet had been in the Roman curia since then. By 31 October 1439 Mellet had a number of small benefices in Laon : the parish church of St-Rémy-à-la-Place and the altar of St. Elizabeth in the cathedral (id., ASV, RS 363, f. 194v), and by 09 November 1440 Mellet, described as an unmarried clerk of Cambrai not in holy orders, had become a notary (id., ASV, RS 369, f. 20v). Petitions of 9 and 28 November 1440 state that Mellet had been outside the Curia for about nine months (id., ASV, RS 369, f. 66); presumably he went to Laon, where there was some problem with his benefices, and he had been despoiled of the church of St-Rémy (id., ASV, RS 369, fols. 66v and 216v–217). By 14 July 1441 he petitioned the Sacra Penitentiaria, where his patron Niccolò Asti was subdean, to allow any Catholic bishop to confer orders upon him (id., ASV, SP 2 bis, fol. 245v). Upon his final return north, Mellet went to Cambrai and not to Laon.

Cathedral of Cambrai, 1442-1481
He was a minor vicar of Cambrai's cathedral from 18 April 1442 to 23 June 1456 (F-AD 59, 4G 7442, f. 8; 4G 7454, f. 5v) with only two short absences from 06 to 14 February 1455 and for sixteen days “ad Sanctum Nicolaum” starting of 24 September 1455 (id., 4G 7453, f. 7; 4G 7454, f. 5v]. His reception as a small vicar is the earliest mention of Mellet in Cambrai. Mellet became member of the grand community of chaplains in 1454-55 (F-AD 59, 4G 6921, f. 11) and appears in the lists until 1460-61 (id., 4G 6929, f. 22v). On 15 June 1461 Mellet exchanged his chaplaincies in Cambrai and Laon and the parish church of Welu [Vélu] for a grand vicariate at Cambrai with Robert le Canoine (F-BM Cambrai, ms. 1060, f. 113). He died on 17 September 1481 [id., ms. 1061, f. 132v). Mellet was a prodigious music scribe and the accounts of the fabric record his activity in considerable detail (Curtis 1991 and 1999).

Planchart Alejandro
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Informations

  • Rôles

    Cleric
    Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
    Member of a church (lower ranked officer)
    Member of a church (musician)
    Member of a princely/private household
    Music copyist
    Priest

  • Genre

    Homme

Événements

(YYYY-MM-DD)

9 en base de données

Professional career - others

Member of a princely/private household
1431-04-14/1436
Città del Vaticano (Vatican City State)


Mécène : Niccolò Cechi de Astis de Forli

Bibliographie : Planchart 2018

Commentaires : A. Planchart writes that a petition mentionning Mellet's roman service in the 1430s was issued by "Cardinal Nicolas of Forli" (Planchart PCR) or "Cardinal Niccolò Asti da Forlì" (Planchart 2018, p. 781), whom he then designates as Mellet's Patron. There was no cardinal of that name, the only cardinal named Nicolas in the 1430s being Niccolo Albergati. But historians of the roman curia do mention the career of a doctor in medicine whose full name is "Nicolas de Cechi de Astis de Forlivio" who appears in procedures concerning benefices in the Low countries, including Cambrai and Liège. (D. Fiala, 22.6.2025)

Benefice

Priest
1439-10-31/1440-11-09
Laon (France)


Institution : Église paroissiale Saint-Rémy-à-la-Place, Laon (France)

Commentaires : https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA00066441
One might suppose that he was deprived of this benefice because not yet ordained as a priest.

Benefice

Member of a church (lower ranked officer)
1439-10-31/1461-06-15
Laon (France)


Institution : Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, Laon (France)

Commentaires : By 31 October 1439 Mellet had a number of small benefices in Laon : the parish church of St-Rémy-à-la-Place and the altar of St. Elizabeth in the cathedral (id., ASV, RS 363, f. 194v)
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On 15 June 1461 Mellet exchanged his chaplaincies in Cambrai and Laon and the parish church of Welu for a grand vicariate at Cambrai with Robert le Canoine (F-BM Cambrai, ms. 1060, f. 113)

Travel

Cleric
1440-02/1440-11
Laon (France)


Bibliographie : Planchart 2018

Commentaires : Petitions of 9 and 28 November 1440 state that Mellet had been outside the Curia for about nine months (id., ASV, RS 369, f. 66); presumably he went to Laon.

Musical position

Member of a church (musician)
1442-04-18/1456-06-23
Cambrai (France)


Institution : Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambrai, Cambrai (France)

Commentaires : Petit vicaire

Religious position

Member of a church (lower ranked officer)
1455/1461-06-15
Cambrai (France)


Institution : Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambrai, Cambrai (France)

Commentaires : Chapelain

Benefice

Priest
before 1461
Vélu (France)


Institution : Église paroissiale de Vélu, Vélu (France)

Commentaires : https://dicotopo.cths.fr/places/P87098697
On 15 June 1461 Mellet exchanged his chaplaincies in Cambrai and Laon and the parish church of Welu for a grand vicariate at Cambrai with Robert le Canoine (F-BM Cambrai, ms. 1060, f. 113)
Date incicated Before 1461 (= 1451-1461)

Religious position

Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
1461-06-15/1481-09-17
Cambrai (France)


Institution : Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Cambrai, Cambrai (France)

Commentaires : Grand vicaire

Death

1481-09-17
Cambrai (France)

Variantes

Meslet ; Symon

Personnes associées

Robert le Canonne (Direct exchange of benefices)

Bibliographie

[Curtis 1991]

Curtis, L., 1991, Music Manuscripts and Their Production in Fifteenth-Century Cambrai, Thèse de doctorat soutenue à , 1991 https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb2432882 (consulté le 21 juin 2025).

[Curtis 1999]

Curtis, L., 1999, Simon Mellet, scribe of Cambrai Cathedral, Plainsong & Medieval Music, 8, p. 133‑166 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/plainsong-and-medieval-music/article/abs/simon-mellet-scribe-of-cambrai-cathedral/12F4F772AB26B576700EA80E004CE3AF# (consulté le 20 juin 2025).

[Houdoy 1880]

Houdoy, J., 1880, Histoire artistique de la cathédrale de Cambrai : ancienne église métropolitaine Notre-Dame. Comptes, inventaires et documents inédits avec une vue et un plan de l’ancienne cathédrale, Lille https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5765643q.

[Planchart 2018]

Planchart, A. E., 2018, Guillaume Du Fay: The Life and Works, Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/guillaume-du-fay/C1FA92429F59A808EE02AE69BC1D76AE (consulté le 16 mars 2024).
(pp. 781-782)

[Planchart PCR]

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

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Planchart Alejandro - Biography author

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