Surname
Luwere (de)
Given Name
Jean
Active period
1414 - 1484
Biography
Planchart : Jehan de Luwere: documented as a small vicar on 04 November 1414 when he collated the chaplaincy of Notre-Dame de la Poudre resigned by Jehan de Calais [CBM 1056, 17v]. He might have been received in the community of chaplains, but the records from 1414 to 1416 are lost and by 1417-18 his name is not in the lists of chaplains, in fact he disappears from the cathedral records until 1472-73 when the grand métier paid him 10 lb as the notary assisting the secretary of the chapter (Georges Bouchel) [LAN, 4G 5105 (1472-73), 7r]. Luwere is one of the scribes of CBM 1060 (indicated on fol. 1r as a public, imperial, and apostolic notary), and of the execution of Du Fay’s will. On 18 August 1476 the canons grant him the habitu ecclesiae and describe him as “presbytero musico in lectione et cantu experto” [CBM 1061, 6v], and within a year he was the main secretary of the chapter [LAN, 4G 5108, 9r]. On 18 July 1478 he was granted the chaplaincy of St. John the Baptist resigned by Martin Tranchet [CBM 1061, 49r], joined the grand community of chaplains in 1479-80 [LAN, 4G 6958, 12r] and appears in the lists until 1483-84 [LAN, 4G 6963]. On 19 July 1482 he was made canon and treasurer of Ste. Croix [CBM 1061, 143v], but by 10 May 1484, when the widow of the baker to the chapter sued him, he was probably no longer living in Cambrai [CBM 1061, 187r]. On 30 July 1484 he resigned by procuration an unnamed chaplaincy in Cambrai in an exchange with Andrieu Verdure for a chaplaincy in Saint-Amé de Douai, and on 18 October 1484 he is described as the provost of Saint-Pierre de Douai [CBM 1061, 197v]. This is his last appearance in the Cambrai records.
• (DF) BnF, ms. lat. 16246 (catalogue BEC 31 [1870], p. 59; recueil du XVe s. 394 f., dont des lettres d’Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini), f. 135-136 Epistola Johannis de Luwere super stupro civitatis Cameracensis (P.O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, vol. 3, Leiden, Brill, 1983, p. 263 ajoute: datée 1478); f. 136-146: Dyalogus Dyonisii et Andree super stupro civitatis Cameracensis (à la fins, oraisons au duc de Bourgogne, 1455 et à Maximilien).
• (DF) BnF, ms. lat. 16246 (catalogue BEC 31 [1870], p. 59; recueil du XVe s. 394 f., dont des lettres d’Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini), f. 135-136 Epistola Johannis de Luwere super stupro civitatis Cameracensis (P.O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, vol. 3, Leiden, Brill, 1983, p. 263 ajoute: datée 1478); f. 136-146: Dyalogus Dyonisii et Andree super stupro civitatis Cameracensis (à la fins, oraisons au duc de Bourgogne, 1455 et à Maximilien).