Jean de Cordoval (Corduel) [Juan de Córdoba]

First appears on payroll lists 1433 termed as a lutenist. 1436 and 1437 listed as player of the vielle. 1445 1449 ‘jouer des instruments bas’. marixHIST, pp. 267-71 quoted in polkGERM, p. 13.

gomez1992-2, p. 591: Castilian blind lutenist employed at the court of Philip the Fair in Burgundy. Mentioned by Martin le Franc in Le champion des dames. Marix 1939, p. 267ff, 95, names him as Juan de Corduel in the company of Jehan Ferant, both of whom had come from Portugal. (Cited in schöner1999, p. 40. Both given as jouer de luths, jouer de vielle or menestrel de bas instruments).

corona1999, p. 21: In 1466 Juan do Córdoba was back in Spain, assuming that certain documents from Saragossa which mention a blind player of the rebec and vihuela de arco refer to the same person. On December 22 of that year he gave power of attorney to his servant Juan de Cazorla to demand the restitution of a donkey of his property, and on April 6, 1467, he accepted GarcIa Jiménez (also blind) as his apprentice, undertaking to teach him vihucla y rabcl, and to provide him,