Ferry de Clugny

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Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born
Ferry de Clugny

1430
Autun, France
Died7 October 1483(1483-10-07) (aged 52–53)
Rome, Papal States

Ferry de Clugny, Cardinal and

Dukes of Burgundy
.

He was born at

utroque iure, in both civil (Roman) and canon law
.

Councillor and statesman in Burgundy

While still a young man he was a member of the grand council of

Apostolic Protonotary.[citation needed
]

He was one of the three Burgundian ambassadors sent to

Louis XI of France in Melun in January 1465. After Philip's death, he was entrusted by the new duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, to negotiate the Treaty of Péronne (1468), to treat with Louis again at Noyon, and in 1473 to negotiate the Treaty of Senlis. He headed the Duke's grand council from 29 May 1473, and was named Chancellor of the Order of the Golden Fleece the following 15 September.[citation needed
]

With the death of Charles the Bold, 5 January 1477, Maximilian received the vast Burgundian inheritance by right of his wife. In the transfer of power to the Habsburg, Ferry de Clugny was confirmed in his positions, including that of Chancellor of the Golden Fleece (10 December 1477), where he guided the new sovereign of the order, and as councillor.[citation needed]

Abbacies in commendam

Like all major prelates of the time, he held multiple abbacies

bishop of Cavaillon by its cathedral chapter in 1467, the election was never confirmed, and in 1468, he was unsuccessful in getting appointed dean by the chapter of Amiens. Later, he was provost of the collegiate church of Saint-Barthélemy de Béthune, canon of the cathedral chapter of Cambrai, and archdeacon of Ardennes in Liège.[citation needed
]

Patronage

Annunciation commissioned by Ferry de Clugny, 1465–75, workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, possibly by Hans Memling[2]

His patronage of the arts must be assessed by a handful of survivals. On 7 November 1465, he obtained permission from the cathedral chapter of Autun, where he was a canon, to have a chapel built to be his sepulchre; it is called the Chapelle Dorée from the profusion of its gilding. For its painted walls he commissioned Pierre Spicre[3] to provide figures of four Old Testament patriarchs, the four Evangelists and four doctors of the Church. In the Annunciation attributed to Rogier van der Weyden or one of his disciples, Hans Memling, that is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ferry de Clugny's arms appear in the carpet and in the stained glass above the Virgin's head; it too must have been commissioned by him.[4] At Bruges he commissioned from the illuminators Loyset Liéder and Liévin van Latham a richly illuminated pontifical with 95 miniatures and rinceau borders.[5] He commissioned a suite of at least ten Franco-Flemish tapestry hangings of Illustrious Women, figuring among many armorials his arms and the cardinal's hat; eight fragmentary remains that survived the burning of the Château de Thénisset in 1791 are now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[6]

Bishop of Tournai

Between 1410 and 1483 four presidents of the great council of Burgundy succeeded one another as

Marguerite, daughter of Archduke Maximilian, future Holy Roman Emperor, and Marie, the heiress of Burgundy.[citation needed
]

To Rome

Clugny was created cardinal in secret by Pope Paul II in May or June 1471; the creation was not published because of the unexpected death of the Pope. He was publicly created cardinal priest in his absence, in the consistory of 15 May 1480. He arrived from Flanders in Rome with his household, which included the composer Marbrianus de Orto, 3 June 1482. On 10 June, he was received by the pope, who gave him the red hat. On 7 October 1483 he died suddenly, of a stroke; on the following day, he was buried in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, far from the Clugny chapel that he had prepared at Autun.[citation needed]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Salvador Miranda (ref).
  2. ^ Metropolitan Museum of art: on-line catalogue
  3. ^ Jacques Bacri, "Two Portraits by Pierre Spicre" Parnassus 9.4 (April 1937, pp. 24–28) p. 27. The eighteenth-century plaster covering the wall-paintings had recently been removed, permitting the attribution to Spicre, who had decorated a chapel for Clugny's friend, Cardinal Jean Rolin, at Beaune
  4. Metropolitan Museum website attributes the painting to the "Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden (possibly Hans Memling
    )".
  5. ^ Sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 13 July 1977; facsimile Le Pontifical du Cardinal Ferry de Clugny, evêque de Tournai, ed. A. De Schryver, M. Dynkmans and J. Ruysschaert (Città del Vaticano 1989).
  6. ^ Vicomte L. de Varax, Les tapisseries du Cardinal de Clugny (Lyon) 1926, noted in Ella S. Siple, "A New Wing for the Boston Museum" The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 53 No. 308 (November 1928) p. 265f; Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 27 (February 1929), pp 1–10, figs.

Further reading

  • Pycke, J. "De Louis de la Trémoille à Ferry de Clugny: cinq évéques tournaisiens au service des ducs de Bourgogne (1388–1483)" Les Grands siècles de Tournai (Tournai) 1993, pp 209–238.
  • Ruysschaert, José, "La bibliothèque de Ferry de Clugny, évêque de Tournai (1473–1483). Un siècle de recherches érudites." Mémoires de la Société Historique et Archéologique de Tournai 6 (1989).

External links

  • OCLC 53276621
    .
  • "Autour des Messieurs de Clugny" Genealogical notices.
  • Rogier van der Weyden, Annunciation Commissioned by Ferry de Clugny.
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