Tomb of Philibert II (1480 - 1504), Duke of Savoy and husband of Margaret of Austria (1480 - 1530), inside the abbey church of the Royal Monastery of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The tomb was designed by German sculptor Conrad or Conrat Meit (1480-1550). Margaret of Austria rebuilt Brou monastery in the early 1500s to commemorate her late husband and to fulfil the wishes of Philibert’s mother, Margaret of Bourbon (1438 - 1483).
Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France: tomb of Philibert II (1480 - 1504), Duke of Savoy, carved by German sculptor, Conrad or Conrat Meit (1480-1550), inside the abbey church of the Royal Monastery of Brou or Monastère royal de Brou. The monastery was rebuilt in the early 1500s by Philibert II’s widow, Margaret or Marguerite of Austria (1480 - 1530), Duchess of Savoy (Savoie) and Regent of the Netherlands, to commemorate her late husband and to fulfil the wishes of Philibert’s mother, Margaret of Bourbon (1438 - 1483). Philibert II, known as Philibert the Handsome, died childless at the age of 24 of pleurisy. The abbey church, dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino and known in French as the Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou, was designed by Flemish architect Loys Van Boghem (1470 - 1540), a master builder from Brussels, and built between 1513 and 1532. It is a High Flemish Gothic masterpiece. Margaret of Austria, daughter of Habsburg archduke Maximilian, later Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, was one of Renaissance Europe’s most powerful and well-connected women. She was made Regent of the Habsburg Netherlands for the future Emperor Charles V by her father, holding the post from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 to 1530. Bourg-en-Bresse is in the Ain department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 70km (43 miles) northeast of Lyon. It was capital of the ancient province of Bresse and, since the Revolution, has been capital of the Ain. Throughout much of the middle ages it served as a major outpost of Savoy. It passed to France in 1601. Brou is an historic suburb of Bourg-en-Bresse, a mile east of the centre.
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Location: Royal Monastery of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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