HA&A 0240: Medieval Artistic Patronage
Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis
LIFE OF SUGER
- Birth date: 1081 (or 1080)
- March 12, 1122 Ordained abbot of Saint-Denis
- 1137 Performed marriage of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 1140 Consecration of Saint-Denis
- 1140 New West entrance of Saint-Denis dedicated
- 1140 Implementation of Suger's program to rebuild choir
and radiating chapels at Saint-Denis
- 1144 Louis VII and Eleanor are present at the dedication
of East end of Saint-Denis
- February 18, 1147 Suger became Regent of France when
King Louis VII departed for the Second Crusade
- Death date January 1151