Surname
Du Wez
Given Name
Pierre
Date of death
1483
Role
Musician
Active period
1443 - 1483
Biography
Fallows1982, notice p.255: Ténor à Cambrai à partir du 14.5.1443, éxécuteur testamentaire de Du Fay, dont il avait gardé la maison pendant sept années dans les années 1450. Il participe à l’inventaire des biens de la cathédrale en 1461 avec Du Fay.
PirroBN-acta1058, 145v, 8.1.1447: Petro de Vado, abbé des fous.1061, 21v, 26.3.1477: Petr. du We, pr.proc. curé de S Nic. de Brules in Tornaco dioc. Cambrai, résign. par permutation avec Petro de Rivo, pr. chap. S Alexis à l’autel S Vincent du monastère de Cisoing, dioc. Tournai
Cpte d’éxéc., ADN, 4G 1705.
Pierre du Wez: was a small vicar from 14 May to 18 October 1443, 05 December 1443 to 03 January 1445, and 25 February 1446 to 08 July 1457 [LAN, 4G 7442, 8v; 4G 7443, 7r; 4G 7444, 5v; 4G 7445, 6v; 4G 7456, 7r]. His first absence was connected with a journey to the Council of Basel, no explanation for his second absence has turned up. Du Wez became a chaplain in 1449-50 (accounts of those years do not record the advents), appears in the lists from 1450-51 [LAN, 4G 6916, 23v] until 1482-83 [LAN, 4G 6962, 24r], in 1462 he was chaplain of the revestiary [CBM 1060, 144v]. He kept Du Fay’s house for him during the seven years Du Fay was in Savoy in the 1450s and was one of his executors. He died on 08 May 1483 [CBM 1061, 159v]. Though he was of modest means to the end (the aumosne granted him 100 s on 22 March 1482 on account of old age and poverty) [LAN, 4G 7767, 14v], the execution of his will [LAN, 4G 1705] shows he was a learned man who left behind a large library.
PirroBN-acta1058, 145v, 8.1.1447: Petro de Vado, abbé des fous.1061, 21v, 26.3.1477: Petr. du We, pr.proc. curé de S Nic. de Brules in Tornaco dioc. Cambrai, résign. par permutation avec Petro de Rivo, pr. chap. S Alexis à l’autel S Vincent du monastère de Cisoing, dioc. Tournai
Cpte d’éxéc., ADN, 4G 1705.
Pierre du Wez: was a small vicar from 14 May to 18 October 1443, 05 December 1443 to 03 January 1445, and 25 February 1446 to 08 July 1457 [LAN, 4G 7442, 8v; 4G 7443, 7r; 4G 7444, 5v; 4G 7445, 6v; 4G 7456, 7r]. His first absence was connected with a journey to the Council of Basel, no explanation for his second absence has turned up. Du Wez became a chaplain in 1449-50 (accounts of those years do not record the advents), appears in the lists from 1450-51 [LAN, 4G 6916, 23v] until 1482-83 [LAN, 4G 6962, 24r], in 1462 he was chaplain of the revestiary [CBM 1060, 144v]. He kept Du Fay’s house for him during the seven years Du Fay was in Savoy in the 1450s and was one of his executors. He died on 08 May 1483 [CBM 1061, 159v]. Though he was of modest means to the end (the aumosne granted him 100 s on 22 March 1482 on account of old age and poverty) [LAN, 4G 7767, 14v], the execution of his will [LAN, 4G 1705] shows he was a learned man who left behind a large library.