Surname
Somme (de)
Given Name
Jean
Variant Name
Somain
Place of birth
Somain
Active period
1466 - 1484
Biography
Planchart : Jehan de Somme (Sommam): documented as a chorister from 1466 to 1473, who left after Lent 1473 “with many years of service” [LAN, 4G 7764 (1465-66), 25r; (1466-67), 14r; (1467-68), 16v; (1472-73), 20r]. He was a small vicar from 08 May 1482 to 30 November 1484 [LAN, 4G 7472 (1482-83), 9v; (1484-85), 7v]. A curious entry in the account of the grand community of chaplains for 1482-83 that the chaplaincy of St. Anne, a foreign chaplaincy, had belonged to Jehan but was now in the hands of the chapter [LAN, 4G 6962, 30v] is the only notice we have of him besides his service as a small vicar.