Haimbaut, Helbin (…-…). Musician

Planchart: Helbin Haimabut: documented as a small vicar in an undated entry in the aumosne for 1416-17 as Helbin [LAN, 4G 7758 (1416-17), 9v] and with his full name on 11 November 1419 when he collated the chaplaincy at the altar of St. Andrew vacant on the death of Jehan Hubbard [CBM 1056, 74v]. He was illegitimate, born of an Augustinan canon and a single woman and sought a papal dispensation on 06 September 1426 [ASV, RS 187, 109v] and was granted a licentia testandi on 16 August 1426 [CBM 1056, 171v], he joined the grand community of chaplains in 1420-21 [LAN, 4G 6899, 6r], and appears in the lists until 1427-28 [LAN, 4G 6904, 20v], by 1428 he had become a chaplain of the duke of Burgundy [LAN, B 1938, 159v] and appears in the Burgundian lists from 1436 (the first complete list) until 1441 [Marix, Histoire, 242-244]. At the Burgundian chapel he was considered a tenorist [LAN, 4G 5066, 37r]. He retained his chaplaincy in the cathedral and some of his privileges of absence are recorded in the acts [CBM, 1057, 27v] as well as some of his visits when he was presented with wine (in 1430, 31, 33, 37, and 38) [LAN, 4G 5065, 12r; 5067, 11r; 5071, 16r; 5072, 13r]. He resigned the chaplaincy of St. Andrew, on 12 August 1455 [CBM 1059, 179v]. He was a canon and cantor of Arras [Marix, Histoire, 165], as such he probably visited Cambrai each year on St. Mary Magdalen’s day; his presence is specifically recorded in 1445 [LAN, 4G 7445, 6r].
• Demeuldre 1902, p.45, indique que “Hellin Hannibault” est trésorier de Soignies entre Ernould de Gavre et Pierre de le Flekière. Mais il ne lui consacre apparement pas de notice.
• En 1435, à Arras, cinq “joueurs de farses, demourans à Cambray” reçoivent 14£ “pour une fois quant ylz sont nagaires venu dudit Cambray à Arras, jouer devant Monseigneur pluiseurs jeux de farses en personnaiges et moralitez, à la feste de Messire Helbin Hambaut, abbé des fols de l’ostel de mon dit Seigneur” (La Fons Mélicocq 1857, p.395).