Career
Little of his music has survived, but he had a considerable reputation as a singer, and Guillaume Crétin wrote an elegy on his death. However he occasionally left for travels. In January 1506 he became a priest.
While in Spain, he was involved in a street brawl, which resulted in the death of one of his attackers.
Along with another of the entourage of Philip, he was assaulted by twenty or more armed Spaniards, who had previously harassed him during dinner. After the fight, Braconnier and his companion sought refuge in the Monastery of Saint Bernard, not far from Toledo.
Queen Joanna of Castile pardoned them because they fought in self-defense, and one of the attackers died after the fight from his wounds. Braconnier left Spain in September 1506, on the death of Philip, and several months later appeared in France with the singers attached to King Louis XII of France, and went with them to Italy, where Louis was engaged in a military campaign, and he evidently remained with the French court for the rest of his life.
The date of his death is inferred from the many documents which involve the disposition of his benefices, which were numerous: evidently he was well liked by both the king and the ecclesiastical powers.
