Editing Pope Clement VI (section)

===Death, burial, and monument===
[[File:Abbaye Saint Robert de La Chaise Dieu-Gisant de Clément VI D-201121007.jpg|thumb|Tomb of Clement VI]]
Clement had been ill for some time in 1352, not just with kidney stones, which had troubled him for many years, but also with a tumor, which broke out into an abscess with fever during his last week.<ref>Déprez, p. 235, note 1.</ref>  Pope Clement VI died on 6 December 1352, in the eleventh year of his reign. After his death, his Almoner, Pierre de Froideville, distributed the sum of 400 livres to the poor of Avignon,  and on the day of the solemn funeral another 40 livres were distributed during the procession to the Cathedral to the poor who were present. Clement left the reputation of "a fine gentleman, a prince munificent to profusion, a patron of the arts and learning, but no saint".<ref>([[Ferdinand Gregorovius|Gregorovius]]{{full citation needed|date=August 2016}}; see also [[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]], chap. 66){{full citation needed|date=August 2016}}</ref> His body was placed on exhibit in the [[Avignon Cathedral|Notre Dame-des-Doms]], where it was buried temporarily. Three months later, the body was transferred in a splendid procession to the abbey of [[La Chaise-Dieu]], passing through Le Puy on 6 April.<ref>Déprez, p. 239, note 1.</ref>  On arrival, the coffin was placed in the church of the Carmelites. Later in April it was permanently interred in a tomb in the center of the Choir of the Church.<ref name="Morganstern61" >Anne McGee Morganstern, "Art and Ceremony in Papal Avignon: A Prescription for the Tomb of Clement VI,"  ''Gesta'', Vol. 40, No. 1 (2001), p. 61.</ref> The funeral procession was accompanied by his brother Count William Roger of Beaufort, and by the five cardinals who were his family members: Hugues Roger, Guillaume de la Jugié, Nicolas de Besse, Pierre Roger de Beaufort, and Guillaume d' Aigrefeuille.<ref>Morganstern, pp. 61, 75.</ref>  In 1562, the tomb was attacked by the Huguenots and severely damaged, losing the forty-four statues of Clement's relatives which surrounded the sarcophagus. Only the sarcophagus and tomb cover survived, making the present tomb a mere shadow of its former architectural and decorative glory.<ref>Déprez, p. 239, note 2.</ref> The tomb cover, in white marble,<ref>Arthur Gardner, ''Medieval Sculpture in France'', 387.</ref> was made by master sculptor Pierre Boye, and his two assistants Jean de Sanholis and Jean David. The construction of the tomb began in 1346, and was completed in 1351. It cost 3,500 [[florin]]s, to which were added 120 [[écu]]s d'or, as a gratuity for the master sculptor.<ref>Michèle Beaulieu, "Les tombeaux des papes limousins d'Avignon [compte-rendu]," ''Bulletin Monumental 114-3'', pp. 221–222.</ref>