—, Watelet (…-…)

PirroBN-acta1058, 257, 9.4.(1450): Wateleto parvo vicario pour tunique. Il le relève à nouveau dans acta1060, 3v & 8, octobre-décembre 1457, où il est emprisonné suite à une rixe. Tjrs aucun patronyme, et aucun Gauthier n’apparaît par la suite.

Planchart : Lambert (?) Watelet: Watelet, without a first name, documented as a small vicar on 11 February 1451, when the echevins of Ste. Croix went into his house and removed items that a woman claimed were hers [CBM 1058, 249v], which set up a confrontation between the echevins and the chapter. On 09 April 1451 Wattelet was given money for a robe provided he served the church for at least eight months [CBM 1058, 257r]. The opening list of small vicars for 1451-52 does not have his name [LAN, 4G 7450, 5v], but when the matter between the echevins and the chapter was settled on 12 July 1451 Watelet is still called a small vicar [CBM 1058, 270v], so he must be one of the three men whose names are absent from the lists for 1449-50 and appear for the first time in the list for 1451-52, namely Guillermus, Vairet, and Lambertus. Guillermus and Vairet seem to be itinerant singers, who like most such singers in the 15th century, traveled in pairs, and both left Cambrai on 24 July; while Lambertus left on the 01 August 1451 [LAN, 4G 7450, 5v], he returned briefly from 07 October 1457 to 27 January 1458 (this time called Watelet in the lists [LAN, 4G 7456, 7v] eventually fulfilling his promise of serving the cathedral for at least eight months. Thus I believe that Lambertus and Watelet are the same man. He might be the Watelet (no other name) reported as chaplain of the second Marian chaplaincy at the Zavelkerk in Brussels in 1459-60 [Haggh, “Music,” II, 687.