Canner, Laurent (…-…)

Planchart : Laurent [Canner]: documented as a former chorister in the act reporting his reception as a semi vicar on 19 March 1449 [CBM 1058, 190v]. He served from 19 March 1449 to 01 August 1451 and from 01 September 1451 to 28 October 1454 [LAN, 4G 7448, 6v; 4G 7450, 6r; 4G 7453, 6v]. During this period his last name never appears in any Cambrai document, but the entry on his recess states that Laurentius, Iacobus, and Henricus left “in order to go to Rome.” As it turns out, the cameral mandates of Roman curia reveal that Laurentius Canner, Iacobus Boni, and Henricus Rosa all joined the papal in May 1454 [ASR, MC 832, 12r], providing us the last name for all three singers. Laurentius was in the papal chapel from May 1455 to July 1456 [Starr, “Music,” 177-178]. In Rome he sought canonicates at Onze Lieve Vrouw in Antwerp and Cambrai, the rectorship of St. Cornelius in Hoorbeke, and the cantoria at St. Géry in Cambrai [Starr, “Music,” 176, citing papal supplications and letters. The Cambrai request passed unnoted in the chapter acts]. The acts record that on 29 November 1454 he resigned by procuration the chaplaincy at the altar of SS Nicholas and Catherine in an exchange with Alexandre Brouillart for the parish church of Lonsart [CBM 1059, 112r]. [Check St. Géry]. He may be the same man who was twice briefly in Cambrai in the 1460s: On 01 April 1462 Laurentius Cannoner, priest and MA, as proctor Baudouin le Gay, presented letters from the Roman curia granting Le Gay the canonicate and archdeaconate of Brabant Vacant on the death of Pierre le Clerc [CBM 1060, 137v], and on 04 July 1463 Laurentius, canon of St. Quentin “in the church of St. Aldegundis in Maubeugue,” as proctor of the Cardinal of Siena, presents letters of reservation for a canonicate at Cambrai [CBM 1060, 173r].