Ferry Carondelet

Ferry Carondelet was born in Mechelen, Flanders, to a rich, bourgeois and influential family originally from Dole.

He grew up 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 1508 Ferry Carondelet became confessor (church advisor) to Margaret of Austria, the regent of the Spanish Netherlands, and incidentally to her ward, the future Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V .

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.