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Ferry Carondelet (also '''Ferricus Carondelet''') (1473 – June 27 , 1528 ) was a Habsburg diplomat, advisor to Margaret Of Austria and Abbot at Montbenoît . He was the younger brother of Jean Carondelet . BIOGRAPHY 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 1504 he was named Archdeacon of the Besançon church. 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 . 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 Saint Columbanus 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 June 27 , 1528 and is buried in a marble tomb in the Cathedrale Saint Jean in Besançon. REFERENCES
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