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More on a friend of Philippe de Vitry: Johannes Rufi de Cruce alias Jean de Savoie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2019

ANDREW WATHEY
ANDREW WATHEY*
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Abstract

Who was Jean de Savoie, the clerk with whom the composers Jean Campion and Philippe de Vitry penned the jeu-parti Ulixea fulgens in 1350? This article uses Jean's hitherto unnoticed will and foundations at the church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bestourné, Paris, with other documentation, to bring together Jean's two identities in a unified biography (including a new date for his death, in 1354); to illustrate the close parallels between his own career and that of Philippe de Vitry, and to map the scope of opportunities for contact between them in and around the French royal court from the early 1320s onwards. Jean was also an artist and illustrator, and his career as one of the more prominent cartoonists of Philippe VI, king of France, throws light on potential contact with Vitry via the adoption by Louis I de Bourbon of the hitherto largely royal practice of charter illustration. In addition the properties acquired to support two chaplaincies endowed by Jean at Saint-Benoît demonstrate the extent to which he was professionally embedded in a network of royal councillors working in and around the Parlement in the 1330–50s, in which Vitry was also active. Also identified is a house acquired at Saint-Benoît by Gervès du Bus, author of the Roman de Fauvel.

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Plainsong & Medieval Music , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , April 2019 , pp. 29 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 2019 

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11 F-Pan, JJ 61, fols. 156rv, 12 June 1321. Those present included Louis's clerk, Guidomar de Mezle, for whom Vitry acted in 1323 (Châlons-en-Champagne, Archives Départementales de la Marne, G 1442).

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13 See., e.g., F-Pan, JJ 81, fols. 238, 333v, 402, 418. For payments to Jean 1344–9, see F-Pn, MS n. a. lat. 184, fol. 8v; Jules Viard, Les journaux du trésor de Philippe VI de Valois, suivis de l'Ordinarium thesauri de 1338–1339 (Paris, 1899), 481, 612, nos. 2722 and 3533.

14 For this and what follows see Brunel, ‘Entre art et pouvoir’, 65, 71–3.

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16 ‘Entre art et pouvoir’, 61–2.

17 F-Pan, P 4632, no. 3178, now AE/II/343: Bourbon-l'Archambault, 22 February 1334; see Musée des archives nationales: documents originaux de l'histoire de France (Paris, 1872), 197–8. A copy is F-Pan, P 13762, no. 2711. See also Brunel, ‘Entre art et pouvoir’, 46, 60.

18 F-Pan, JJ 81, fol. 402 (no. 760); S. 895B [S. 893, no. 8]. For Martin's own monogram as imperial and papal notary, see F-Pan, S 895D, no. 18 (25 October 1341).

19 Revising the date given by Pognon: Auguste Longnon, Obituaires de la province de Sens, Recueil des historiens de la France (Paris, 1902), vol. 1/ii: 649: ‘magistri Ruffi de Cruce, alias dicti de Sabaudia, qui fuit quondam regis clericus notarius ac canonicus ecclesie Sancti Benedicti Parisius, cuius executores dederunt nobis triginta florenos auri ad scutum’.

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21 F-Pan, JJ 82, fol. 349v (no. 525); JJ 84, fols. 116v–17; S 895B [S 894, no. 14].

22 F-Pan, S 895B [S 895, no. 20], and for what follows. The third executor was Étienne Muete, citizen of Paris.

23 Arthur Långfors, ed., Le Roman de Fauvel par Gervais du Bus, Société des Anciens Textes Français (Paris, 1914–19), ll. 775–6. I am grateful to Karen Desmond for drawing this reference to my attention.

24 F-Pan, S 896B, liasse 2, no. 1 (17 May 1324), noting the sale for 18 livres de bons Parisis by Robert de Couchi, Jehan de Franconville and Jehan de Saint Benoist, executors, to Gervaise du Buc, archdeacon of Pontaudemer in the church of Lisieux, of ‘une meson assise a Paris en la terre Saint Benoist devant le viez semetiere de leglise Saint Benoist tenant dune part a la meson Geffroy le Normant et Gile sa fame qui jadis fu Gerveise le Chandelier et dautre part a une vielle ruelle close pres de la meson de la parroisse de la dicte eglise et par darrieres a la meson Raoul Perier maire de la dicte eglise’.

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30 Chaplain to Johannes de Montibus, provost of Soissons and chancellor of Philippe Duke of Orléans (F-Pan, S 897A, no. 9; 14 June 1348).