Abstract
Abstract This chapter addresses the mobility of instrumentalists, in particular, trumpet players, drummers, and loud and still minstrels, between the courts of Europe. Taking as a starting point the two trumpet players who performed at the court of Henry VIII, and have received much scholarly attention: John de Cecil and John Blanke (the latter identified as the instrumentalist of colour who is displayed on the Westminster Tournament Roll), this chapter then complements the English sources by providing new information regarding the four instrumentalists who can be proved to have travelled to England with Katherine of Aragon. For this I rely on financial account books such as Gonzalo de Baeza’s Cuentas, Morales’s Data, the records of employment at the court of Isabella of Castile in La Casa de Isabel la Cátolica, and various sources from the Archivo General de Simancas. Additionally, this chapter will show that John Blanke, contrary to current belief, was not the first Black musician at the Tudor court. This chapter will reveal who was.
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