Caron (le), Hughes (…-…)

PirroBN, acta1059, 253: “Hughes” est abbé des fous en janvier-février 1456.
Acta1060, 81, 28.5.1460: qualifié de p.v. de l’église de Cambrai, il hérite l’église de Noiry au dioc. d’Arras vac. par le décès de Jo. Legier. 167, 2.5.1463: il hérite la chap. perp. de Nicole Waspail, décédé. Il est éxéc. de Simon Mellet le 17.9.1481.

Planchart : Hughes le Caron: was a small vicar from 11 July 1455 to 03 May 1463 [LAN, 4G 7454, 5v; 4G 7461, 6r]. There is a problem with his name: the entry recording his reception names him as Io. Caron, thereafter he is listed only as Caron until the 1458-59, then the opening list of 1459-60 gives the name Hugo in exactly the place in the list where Caron was until the previous year [LAN, 4G 7458, 5v], and Hugo appears consistently in the lists until 1462-63. The chapter acts refer to Hugo (no last name), a small vicar, on 07 January 1457 [CBM 1059, 252v], when there is no Hugo in any of the lists of small vicars, and then to Hugo le Caron, small vicar, on 28 May 1460 [CBM 1060, 81r]. This makes it clear the Io. indicated in the entry on his reception is most likely a scribal misreading of Ho. On 28 May 1460 he collated the parish church of Moury (Arras) on the death of Jehan Legier, on 03 May 1463 he was granted a grand vicariate on the death of Nicolas de Waspail [CBM 1060, 167r], the day indicated in the wine accounts as his recess from the small vicars. On 17 September 1481 he is mentioned as one of the executors of the will of Symon Mellet [CBM 1061, 132v], and on 27 February 1493 he resigned his grand vicariate to collate the chaplaincy at the altar of the Trinity vacant on the death of Jehan Hemart [CBM 1062, 51r]. He must have become a member of the grand community of chaplains in 1493 (the account for that year is lost), and appears in the lists until 1500-01 [LAN, 4G 685, 23v] although the acts, on 26 March 1502 when he is described as very old and of long service, still refer to him as a chaplain [CBM 1064, 366r], he died shortly before 10 March 1503, when his chaplaincy at the altar of the Trinity went to Jehan du Wez [CBM 1064, 441v].