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Jacob Chimarrhaeus

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Portrait of Jacob Chimarrhaeus (1601), engraved by Aegidius Sadeler

Jacob Chimarrhaeus (1542–1614) was grand almoner to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II.

Life

Chimarrhaeus was a native of Roermond in the duchy of Guelders who became a singer in the court chapel of Rudolph II and was promoted first to chaplain and later to almoner. He was also made a Knight of the Golden Spur and a palatine count of the Holy Roman Empire, and became provost of the Church of St Severin in Cologne. He died in Prague in 1614 but is commemorated in Cologne with a marble and alabaster monument in St Severin carved by Johann in der Müllen.

References

  1. Robert Lindell, "Music and Patronage at the Court of Rudolf II", in Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts, ed. John Kmetz (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 261.
  2. Epitaph für Jacob Chimarrhaeus, Förderverein Romanische Kirchen Köln. Accessed 9 December 2016.
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