Lady of charity of the Middle Ages, Guigone de Salins (1403–1470) was at the origin of the creation of a secular hospital establishment - the hospices of Beaune - to provide care, comfort, help, and consolation to the sick and the poor. Noble by birth and immensely rich from the revenue from the saltworks whose name she bears, she never experienced deprivation herself. Wife of Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy and her eldest by twenty-seven years, Guigone de Salins erected with him a veritable palace for the poor. By wearing the white hennin and the gray dress of the hospital workers of Beaune at the end of her life, she chose to detach herself from temporal riches to attain celestial ones.