Abbot Suger ( c 1081 – 1135 ) in a medieval stained glass window.

* Abbot Suger ( c 1081 – 1151 )

Within hours, then, Louis had arranged for his 17 year-old son, Prince Louis, to be married to Eleanor, with Abbot Suger in charge of the wedding arrangements.

Prince Louis was sent to Bordeaux with an escort of 500 knights, as well as Abbot Suger, Theobald II, Count of Champagne and Count Ralph.

Her conduct was repeatedly criticized by Church elders ( particularly Bernard of Clairvaux and Abbot Suger ) as indecorous.

Hildegard communicated with popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and other notable figures such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who advanced her work, at the behest of her abbot, Kuno, at the Synod of Trier in 1147 and 1148.

From 1127 onward Louis had the assistance of a skilled religious statesman, Abbot Suger.

Abbot Suger arranged the 1137 marriage between Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine in Bordeaux, which made Louis VII Duke of Aquitaine and gave him considerable power.

* Suger, Abbot of St .- Denis

* January 13 – Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian ( b. c. 1081 )

* Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian ( d. 1151 ) ( probable date )

In his youth, he spent much time in Saint-Denis, where he built a friendship with the Abbot Suger that served him well in his early years as king.

Abbot Suger, friend and confidante of the French Kings, Louis VI and Louis VII, decided in about 1137, to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis, attached to an abbey which was also a royal residence.

At the completion of the west front in 1140, Abbot Suger moved on to the reconstruction of the eastern end, leaving the Carolingian nave in use.

His biography by his constant advisor Abbot Suger of Saint Denis renders him a fully rounded character to the historian, unlike most of his predecessors.

* Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis.

* Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis.

The Galerie de l ' avant-cour had ceiling paintings by the Cardinal's chief portraitist, Philippe de Champaigne, celebrating the major events of the Cardinal's career ; the Galerie des hommes illustres had twenty-six historicizing portraits of great men, larger than life, from Abbot Suger to Louis XIII ; some were by Simon Vouet others were careful copies by Philippe de Champaigne from known portraits ; with them were busts of Roman emperors.

Of this marriage wrote Abbot Suger:

* Abbot Suger of St. Denis: Church and State in Early Twelfth-Century France.

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Stephen probably had three illegitimate sons, Gervase, Ralph and Americ, by his mistress Damette ; Gervase became Abbot of Westminster in 1138, but after his father's death Gervase was removed by Henry in 1157 and died shortly afterwards.

In 756 AD it is said that the relics of St. Vitus were brought to the monastery of St-Denis by Abbot Fulrad.

Anselm then went to Rome, where Pope Stephen II invested him with the religious habit of the Benedictine Order, gave him some relics of St. Sylvester and appointed him Abbot of Nonantola.

She was buried here, but in the 11th century her relics were translated to Peterborough Abbey, now Peterborough Cathedral, by Abbot Ælfsige ( 1006 – 1042 ).

These statutes recognized in the order seven high dignitaries: the grand master ; the clavero ( guardian of the castle and lieutenant of the grand master ); two grand comendadores, one for Castile and the other for Aragon ; the grand prior, representing the Abbot of Morimond in the spiritual government ; the sacristan ( guardian of the relics ); the obrero ( supervisor of buildings ).

* Uncovering of the relics ( 1613 ) of Saint James of Zheleznoborov, Abbot of Zhelezny Bor ( 1442 )

* Translation of the relics ( 1545 ) of Saint Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop, Wonderworker of Novgorod ( 1492 )

* Translation of the relics ( 1551 ) of Saint Adrian of Ondrusov ( Valaam ), Abbot ( 1549 )

* Uncovering of the relics ( 1521 ) of Venerable Macarius, Abbot of Kolyazin ( 1483 )

The Bishop of Cambrai gave permission for Abbot Godeschalk of Affligem to enshrine Alena's remains as the relics of a saint ( effectively, therefore, a canonisation ) on Pentecost Sunday, 19 May 1193.

Abbot Warin of that monastery received him kindly, in return for which Hilduin presented him with the relics of St. Vitus, which thereafter were profoundly venerated in Corvey.

In 1491 absolution was granted by Abbot George Shaw, representing the Pope and in the presence of the relics, to James IV of Scotland and others implicated in the death of James III at the Battle of Sauchieburn.

After Carloman's death, Gerberga expected her elder son to become King, and for herself to rule as his regent ; however, Carloman's former supporters – his cousin Adalhard, Abbot Fulrad of Saint Denis and Count Warin – turned against her, and invited Charlemagne to annex Carloman's territory, which he duly did.

The confusion of the personalities of Saint Denis, Dionysus the Areopagite, and pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, the author of the writings ascribed to Dionysius brought to France by Louis, was initiated through an Areopagitica written in 836 by Hilduin, Abbot of Saint-Denis, at the request of Louis the Pious.

Gothic art emerged in Île-de-France, France, in the early 12th century at the Abbey Church of St Denis built by Abbot Suger.

In the 8th century a false document in the name of Charlemagne, in the Monastery of St Denis near Paris mentioned a monk's cell called Gamundias built by Abbot Fulrad of St Denis.

The 12th century is also the century of the Gothic architecture, first known as " Opus Francigenum ", from the work of the Abbot Suger at Saint Denis in 1140.

From around the 1140s, the pointed-arch Gothic window ( employed by Abbot Suger for the redesign of the choir at St Denis ) started to take over.

On November 4, the Bishop of Senlis and the Abbot of St. Denis excommunicated the Flemish rebels at the King's request and the French King also threatened to intervene militarily.

* 1144: The Saint Denis Basilica of Abbot Suger is the first major building in the style of Gothic architecture.

* Cusimano, Richard, ed., and Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis.

Gothic architecture was born in the middle of the twelfth century in Île-de-France, when Abbot Suger built the abbey at St. Denis, c. 1140, considered the first Gothic building, and soon afterward, the Chartres Cathedral, c. 1145.

West facade of St. Denis cathedralHilduin ( 775 – 22 November 840 ) was Bishop of Paris, chaplain to Louis I, reforming Abbot of the Abbey of St. Denis and an author.