Suger (French: [syʒɛʁ]; Latin: Sugerius; c. 1081 – 13 January 1151) was a French abbot and statesman. He was a key advisor to King Louis VI and his son...

Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre in Paris. Abbot Suger was a collector and patron of many art pieces, and Suger's Eagle is one of three vases that he owned...

were brought back again to the abbey in 1819. In the 12th century, the Abbot Suger rebuilt portions of the abbey church using innovative structural and...

rebuilding of the ambulatory and west façade of the abbey church by the Abbot Suger (1135–40). The first Gothic cathedral in France, Sens Cathedral, was...

windows. Saint-Denis was the work of the Abbot Suger, a close adviser of Kings Louis VI and Louis VII. Suger reconstructed portions of the old Romanesque...

Louis VI, whose succession was, however, not uncontested. According to Abbot Suger: … King Philip daily grew feebler. For after he had abducted the Countess...

independently of hearing about Quantum Praedecessores. In any case, Abbot Suger and other nobles were not in favour of Louis's plans, as he would be...

Saint Denis to Rome. Soon his cultus was prevalent throughout Europe. Abbot Suger removed the relics of Denis, and those associated with Rustique and Eleuthére...

saw the founding of the University of Paris. He and his counsellor, Abbot Suger, pushed for greater centralisation of the state and favoured the development...

indeed from the Byzantine Empire) came to visit its market. In 1140, Abbot Suger, counselor to the King, granted further privileges to the citizens of...

first mentioned in the 12th century, already as a treasured relic, by Abbot Suger, who claims in his Administratione, "We also restored the noble throne...

onward Louis had the assistance of a skilled religious statesman, Abbot Suger. The abbot was the son of a minor family of knights, but his political advice...

other popular works. Other chroniclers include Eadmer, Hugh the Chanter, Abbot Suger, and the authors of the Welsh Brut. Not all royal documents from the...

Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung. ISBN 978-3-7752-5762-6. Suger (2018). Selected Works of Abbot Suger of Saint Denis. Translated by Cusimano, Richard; Whitmore...

Venerable, abbot of Cluny, answered Bernard and assured him of his admiration and friendship. In the meantime, Cluny launched a reform and Abbot Suger, the...

lancets on the west front (1145–1155, contemporary with those made for Abbot Suger at the Basilica of Saint-Denis) and the lancet south of the choir known...

friend. Then, after the death of Abbot Adam in March 1122, Abelard was able to gain permission from the new abbot, Suger, to live "in whatever solitary...

Louis, accompanied by a large retinue, some 500 knights, along with Abbot Suger, Geoffrey II, Bishop of Chartres, Theobald II of Champagne and Raoul...

Swithun (d. 862) Æthelwold of Winchester (d. 984) Edmund Rich (1175–1240) Abbot Suger (c. 1081 – 1151) John Beche (d. 1539) Richard Whiting (d. 1539) Hugh...

Basilica of Saint-Denis, Apse, axial chapel, The Annonciation, with Abbot Suger, the patron, depicted at the feet of the Virgin. (1140–1144) Windows...

1127 onward Louis had the assistance of a skilled religious statesman, Abbot Suger. Louis VI successfully defeated, both military and politically, many...

during the reconstruction of the Saint-Denis Abbey, near Paris, under Abbot Suger (d. 1151). The new style quickly spread, dominating religious architecture...

wife, who had been in a nunnery in Argenteuil before its disbandment by Abbot Suger. The Paraclete was rededicated as a nunnery. Heloise became the Paraclete's...

the throne is in the mid-12th-century writing of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, who had it repaired. Suger wrote in his Liber de Rebus in Administratione sua...

Pinsent as Archbishop of Canterbury In alphabetical order Féodor Atkine as Abbot Suger David Bark-Jones as Francis Skye Bennett as Martha young Freddie Boath...

Translated by Field, Larry F. Cornell University Press. Suger (2018). Selected Works of Abbot Suger of Saint Denis. Translated by Cusamano, Richard; Whitmore...

Clairvaux St Foy The Abbey of Vézelay Gislebertus The Abbey of St Denis Abbot Suger Chartres. Beginning at a castle in the Loire and then travelling through...

for three years, but did not have any children together. According to Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, who wrote a panegyric in honour of Louis (Vita Ludovici...

of the wealth she brought to France included the jacinth jewel that Abbot Suger later mounted on a reliquary of St. Denis. Anne left Kiev in the summer...

his doctoral dissertation of 1849, Abbat Sugerii (Abbot Suger), in which he "portrayed the great abbot as the architect of royal centralization." His master's...