Bourier, Gilles (…-…). Musician

PirroBN-acta1058, 99v, 27.2.1447: Egidio Boucier, p. v. recedenti apud romanam curiam in favorem servitii et domini Bononiensis ad quem radit, dantur iiii rideri ab elemosina (??)

Berlière1904, n° 541, p.119, 26.4.1455. Litt de fr pour Gille Bourier, doyen et chanoine de S Géry de Cambrai, recteur de l'eg par de Wetteren, chap de Ste Barbe au château à Anvers, chapelain du pape…

Haberl, p. 227/39, n.1: diacre, chapelain de la chapelle pontificale fl. 1452-1455. Le 6 avril 1455, Egidius Bourier, decanus et canonicus eccl coll SG Cameracen, rectorque paroch eccl de Wetre et Capell Capell B. Barbarae situm in castro Antwerpien, Cameracen dioc” atteste qu’il est devenu cantor capp pontif. Les listes de la fin du pontificat de Nicolas V étant perdues, et comme il ne figure pas sur la première liste du pontificat suivant (mai 1455), il dut servir en 1452-1455.

Planchart : Gilles Bourier: was a small vicar from 20 April 1444 to 27 February 1447 with a short absence in September 1446 [LAN, 4G 7443, 7r; 4G 7446, 6v]. His is one of the instances where the wine accounts record his departure just by providing a new list without his name. The aumosne account and the acts give a date for his departure [LAN, 4G 7762, fascicle of 1446-47, 13r, CBM 1058, 99r] and the acts add the information that he was leaving for Rome in the service of the “Lord of Bologna,” apparently Thomas Parentucelli, who barely a week later would become pope Nicholas 5. On 06 April 1455 a littera de fructibus describes him ad canon and dean of St. Géry and a papal chaplain and singer [ASV, DC 28, 5r-5v], but he was not in the papal chapel as of March 1452 nor in May 1455 (the cameral mandates for the intervening months are lost), so he must have been a papal singer during the final year of Nicolas 5. Later the Cambrai acts mention him as dean of St. Géry on 14 July 1456 [CBM 1059, 223r] but do not indicate if he was present at Cambrai then.

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Bourier, Egidius
fl. 1452-5. Deacon; capp. RomeP
HabR 227.