Career
However all three brides were dead within a few years. In 1422, he was made chancellor by Philippe the Good, a post he held for more than forty years as one of the principal architects of the monarch"s success. Widowed, in 1421 Nicolas Rolin married Guigone de Salins (1403–1470) and together they established the Hospices de Beaune.
Rolin was one of the participants in drafting the 1435 Treaty of Arras by which Charles VII recognised the independence of Burgundy, thus separating it from the English in the Hundred Years" War.
The house in which Rolin was born is now the Autun town museum and is known as the Musée Rolin. He owned the Château d"Oricourt and in 1435 he commissioned January van Eyck the famous The Virgin with Child and Chancellor Rolin, now at the Louvre.
Another son, Louis, was killed on the field at the battle of Grandson in 1476, while a third, Antoine, held various court offices such as chamberlain to Charles the Bold. He ordered the painting of an altarpiece, The Last judgement by the Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden for the hospices.