Le Gaignier, Simon (…-…). Musician

Planchart : Symon le Gaignier, Symon de Mersault: documented as a chorister in 1441-42, 1442-43 [LAN, 4G 7762 (1441-41), 9v; 4G 1442-43, 11v] and as a former chorister in 1444-45 [LAN, 4G 7762 (1444-45), 11r]. He was a small vicar from 21 December 1456 to 23 June 1457 [LAN, 4G 7455, 6v] and again from 10 to 13 December 1460 [CBM 1060, 99v; LAN, 4G 7459, 6v]. A comparison with the act recording his reception in 1460 with the wine account is what established the identity of Le Gaignier and Mersault. On 04 and 20 February the acts record the hearing of dispute between Fursy [blank] and St. Géry against Symon on the matter of an unnamed benefice; the first entry refers to Symon as a small vicar, although he no longer was one, and the second does not. Both refer to him as a chaplain at Cambrai but his name is absent from the accounts of the grand community, which means he was a member of the small community, for which little documentation survives.

PirroBN, acta1060, 99v, 9.12.1460: recep. petit vicaire Symon de Mersault, capellanus.
Ses éxéc. test. Pasquier Coutel et Martin Tracet sont nommés le 26.3.1463.