# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franco-of-cologne
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:09:50.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franco-of-cologne"
name: "Franco of Cologne"
slug: "franco-of-cologne"
description: "Franco of Cologne was a German music theorist, possibly a composer, one of the most influential theorists of the Late Middle Ages, and was the first to propose an idea which was to transform musical notation permanently: that the duration of any note should be determined by its appearance on the page, and not from context alone. The result was Franconian notation, described most famously in his Ars cantus mensurabilis."
tagline: "German composer, musicologist, writer and music theorist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1300"
deathDate: "1299"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.16
  momentum:             7.570093457943925
  historical:           11.819548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franko_K%C3%B6lnski"
    title: "Franko Kölnski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "فرانكو كولونيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francon"
    title: "Francon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franko_Kol%C3%ADnsk%C3%BD"
    title: "Franko Kolínský"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_von_K%C3%B6ln"
    title: "Franco von Köln"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_of_Cologne"
    title: "Franco of Cologne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_de_Colonia"
    title: "Franco de Colonia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francon_de_Cologne"
    title: "Francon de Cologne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franko_iz_K%C3%B6lna"
    title: "Franko iz Kölna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francone_da_Colonia"
    title: "Francone da Colonia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_van_Keulen"
    title: "Franco van Keulen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_z_Kolonii"
    title: "Franco z Kolonii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franc%C3%A3o_de_Col%C3%B3nia"
    title: "Francão de Colónia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D1%91%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Франко Кёльнский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1383390"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump