Oston, Gilles (…-1522)

Pirro1926, p.194: accusé d’avoir chanté au cours d’une leçon de matines les mots “Fabri tu es un tres mauvais garçon” le 31.12.1492. Comptes des petits vicaire (Wright1976, p.212): 1486 (Gillot??, 8/13), 1495-n.n; 1506 (Gillet?? 10/19) VOIR BOULENGIER. Son compte d’éxécution en 1522 est conservé. Il est alors grand vicaire. (Houdoy1880, p280).

Planchart : Gilles Oscon (Oston): came from Leuze-en-Hainaut and was tried as a chorister for twelve days in 1466 and rejected as unsuitable (perhaps for disciplinary reasons) [LAN, 4G 7764 (1466-67), 14r-14v]. He was a small vicar from 12 December 1484 to 29 October 1485 and from 24 June 1486 until 10 March 1493 [LAN, 4G 7472 (1484-85), 8r; (1485-86), 7r; (1486-87), 7r; (1492-93), 7v]. Throughout his career at Cambrai he was cited numerous times for fights and indiscipline [CBM 1061, 373v, 386v; 1062, 38r, 263r; 1063, 195v], including adding the phrase “Fabri tu es sung tres maulvaix garchon” to his singing of the lesson on matins of the Innocents in 1492 [CBM 1062, 37r]. On 04 November 1492 he was made a grand vicar on the death of Robert le Voiturier [CBM 1062, 26r], but apart from this the Cambrai records are silent on his benefices within the cathedral. On 04 March 1504 he collated the parish church of Aubengoul on the death of an unnamed titular [CBM 1064, 493r]. He died in 1522 and his will and it execution survive [LAN, 4G 1844]. (check)