- a trumpeter at the Burgundian court
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Pierre de la Rue was born c. 1460, possibly at Tournai, the son of Jehan de la Rue who was a trumpeter at Philip the Good's Burgundian court. The first reference we have to Pierre is as a tenor at Siena Cathedral c. 1482-85. From 1489-92 he is listed as a singer at s-Hertogenbosch Cathedral, and by 1492 he was a member of Maximilian's Burgundian Court Chapel, passing into the service of Maximilian's son. Philip the Handsome, when the young man was declared of age in 1493. In 1496. Philip married Juana of Castile, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, and la Rue travelled twice with the court to Spain, the first visit in 1501-02. the second in 1506 during which Philip died unexpectedly at Burgos. La Rue seems to have stayed in Juana's service in Spain for as long as two years before returning to Malines (Mechelen) as temporary head of the future Charles V's Chapel, organized for the boy Archduke by his guardian and regent. Philip's sister. Marguerite of Austria. When Charles was declared of age in 1515. he moved his court to Brussels, but soon thereafter la Rue retired to Courtrai (Kortrijk) where he had held a canonry at the church of Notre Dame since 1501. He died there on November 20. 1518. having apparently arranged to be buried in the Chapel of St. Catherine, a saint for whom he may have conceived a particular affection, since her birthplace and shrine were less than 200 metres from the Cathedral in Siena where he had been a singer as a young man.
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