Ferry Carondelet
Ferry Carondelet (also Ferricus Carondelet) (1473 – 27 June 1528) was a
.Biography
Ferry Carondelet was born in
Burgundy, at the time a Habsburg province under Emperor Maximilian I, and matriculated at the University of Franche-Comté, where he took clerical orders. In 1504 he was named Archdeacon of the Besançon
church.
In 1508 Ferry Carondelet became confessor (church advisor) to
Papal Legate to the court of Emperor Maximilian. In 1515 he returned to Burgundy and became the abbot of the abbey in Montbenoît
.
Ferry Carondelet is known as a major benefactor of the Montbenoît abbey and the cathedral in Besançon. He commissioned the Italian painter Fra Bartolomeo 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.
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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.
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