Jean Chevrot

Jean Chevrot (c. 1395, Poligny, Jura - 23 September 1460, Lille) was a French bishop[1] who served as president of the council of Burgundy for Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal.

Chevrot commissioned the Seven Sacraments Altarpiece and The Descent from the Cross from Rogier van der Weyden (entre 1452 et 1455) - both works show him - and he also appears on the frontispiece of the Chronicles of Hainaut.

He wrote his last will and testament at Lille on 18 January 1458, leaving a large sum for a chapel of St Anthony that he had founded in the collégiale Saint-Hippolyte at Poligny - it had a rich library, "vestments, relics, joys and altar fixtures".

After his funeral he was buried in the choir of Tournai Cathedral beside the tomb of Walter de Marvis near the high altar, under the chest containing relics of Hippolytus of Rome which he had brought there from Poligny.

A black marble monument with a copper effigy, his coat of arms and a Latin inscription were all erected by his successor and by the cathedral chapter, though they were destroyed by the Protestants in 1566.