Poquetoy, Johannes (…-after 30 Sep. 1510). Musician; Singer

Papal chapel, 1502-1510. Pocquetoy is first listed as a member of the papal chapel in February 1502 and is documented there in lists and beneficial documents until his death in September 1510. He was a cleric of the diocese of Rouen and was the rector of the parish church of Ste Helène in the village of Froberville with an estimated income of 24 gold cameral ducats and also held a canonry and prebend in the cathedral of Verdun, provided to him by the pope in 1507, with an income of 24 ducats (RS 1262, fols. 256r-256v). At his death, these benefices were claimed by papal singers activating the indult of Innocent VIII which allowed the magister capelle of the papal chapel to present current singers for the benefices of singers who had died (on the indult see Sherr 1998). The church in Froberville was claimed by the singer Michel Touppe* on 10 September 1510 (RS 1356, fol. 69r) and the canonry in Verdun by Elzéar Genet* on the same day (RS 1356, fol. 71r). From these supplications we learn that Pocquetoy had been a member of the household of Cardinal Giovanni de’Medici (the future Leo X) and that he had died less than two days journey or 40 Italian Miles (ca. 60 kilometers) from Rome; for beneficial purposes this meant that he could be said to have died “apud sedem” which meant that the collation of all his benefices reverted to the Holy See. Both supplications were signed in Ancona: Julius II was on his second expedition to Bologna (September 1510-July 1511), and Pocquetoy had probably died en route, possibly while traveling to Montefiascone (about 80 kilometers north of Rome), the town from which Julius began his journey on 1 September 1510.