John Blanke
John Blanke was a 16th century English trumpeter of African descent.
Little is known about the living conditions of Blankes. It is possible that he came to England in 1501 in the wake of Catherine of Aragón . In any case, regular payments to him are found in the treasurer's records under Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII on the Westminster Tournament Roll , an illustrated manuscript about the tournament on the occasion of the birth of the son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Henry Tudor , six trumpeters can be seen, including a black man who is most likely the "blackamoor" Blanke. In contrast to the other trumpeters, he wears a colored headgear, which suggests that certain concessions were made to preserve the culture of his country of origin. He joins a number of black musicians of the Renaissance period in Europe. a. the slave Martino in Naples (around 1470) and Abdul von Meknes , who was in the service of Cosimo I de 'Medici , belonged.
literature
- Thomas Foster Earle, Kate JP Lowe (Eds.): Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 0-521-81582-7 , pp. 39-40 ( limited preview in Google book search).
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| SURNAME | Blanke, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English trumpeter of African origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1500 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1511 |