Career
He is considered to be part of the post-Dufay generation in France. Stokem was born in 1445, probably in Stokkem near Liège. Foreign parts of his life, he served under Beatrice of Aragon, the Queen of Hungary, and as part of the Papal Choir in Rome.
He died in either 1487 or 1501.
His piece, Brunette, was published in the Odhecaton and is an early example of a genre of music commonly known as "little brown-eyed girl." lieutenant is one of the few five-voice works found in the Odhecaton.