Ragot, Jacques (…-Apr. 1468)

Planchart : Jacques Ragot: documented as a small vicar who held the feast of fools, in an undated entry in the grand métier for 1424-25 [LAN, 4G 5060, 18r]. In 1434 Ragot describes himself as a priest from Arras [ASV, RS 298, 49r-49v]. In 1427-28 he joined the grand community of chaplains [LAN, 4G 6904, 6v] and appears in the lists until 1433-34 [LAN, 4G 6906, 56r] even though he was not resident for part of that time. He appears in the roster of the papal chapel on 05 March 1431 [ASR, Camerale I, 1712, 82r] and remained there until September 1433 [ASR, MC 827, 165r], at which time he returned north, most likely to ensure his reception to canonicates at St. Piat de Seclin and Notre Dame in Arras which Eugenius 4 had granted him [ASV, RS 288, fol. 127r-127v and RS 298, fols. 49v-50r]. Around 06 June 1434 he set back for Rome [LAN, 4G 5068, fol. 32r] and was in the papal chapel from October 1434 to April 1436 [ASR, MC 828, 10v and 87v], when he returned north having obtained the desired canonicates. He resigned the chaplaincy of St. Nicaise at Cambrai for a parish church of in Arras in an exchange with Mathieu Aubron on 01 June 1436 [CBM 1057, 28v-29r], and remained a canon of Arras and Seclin, residing in Arras, to his death sometime before April 1468 [LAN, 17G 11 (get piece number #)].