Ferry Carondelet (also Ferricus Carondelet) (1473 – 27 June 1528) was a Habsburg diplomat, advisor to Margaret of Austria and

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at Montbenoît. He was the younger brother of Jean Carondelet.

Biography

Ferry Carondelet was born in Mechelen,

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, to a rich, bourgeois and influential family originally from

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. He grew up in Burgundy, at the time a Habsburg province under Emperor Maximilian I, and

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at the

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, where he took clerical orders. In 1504 he was named Archdeacon of the

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church. In 1508 Ferry Carondelet became confessor (church advisor) to Margaret of Austria, the

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of the

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, and incidentally to her ward, the future

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. In 1510 he was made Papal Legate to the court of Emperor Maximilian. In 1515 he returned to Burgundy and became the abbot of the

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abbey in Montbenoît. Ferry Carondelet is known as a major benefactor of the Montbenoît abbey and the

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. He commissioned the Italian painter

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to create the ''Carondelet Altar'' for Besançon, and he completely rebuilt the church for the Montbenoît abbey. He died on 27 June 1528 and is buried in a marble tomb in the Cathedrale Saint Jean in Besançon.

References

*Borgo, Ludovico (1971) “The Problem of the Ferry Carondelet Altar-Piece” Burlington Magazine, Vol. 113, No. 820 (Jul., 1971), pp. 362–371. *L. de la Brière, 'Dépêches de Ferry Carondelet, Procureur en Cour de Rome (1510–1513)', Bulletin Historique et Philologique du Comité de Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (1895), pp. 98–134. 1473 births 1528 deaths Clergy from Mechelen Diplomats of the Holy See University of Franche-Comté alumni Abbots of the Spanish Netherlands Renaissance people {{RC-bio-stub