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See also:SUGER (c. 1081-1151) , See also:French ecclesiastic, statesman and historian, was See also:born of poor parents either in See also:Flanders, at St See also:Denis near See also:Paris or at Toury in See also:Beauce. About 1091 he entered the See also:abbey of St Denis. Until about 1104 he was educated at the priory of St Denis de 1'Estree, and there first met his See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis VI. From 1104 to 11o6 Suger attended another school, perhaps that attached to the abbey of St See also:Benoit-sur-See also:Loire. In r rob he became secretary to the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of St Denis. In the following See also:year he was made See also:provost of Berneval in See also:Normandy, and in 1109 of Toury. In 1118 he was sent by Louis VI. to the See also:court of See also:Pope See also:Gelasius II. at Maguelonne, and lived from 1121 to 1122 at the court of his successor, See also:Calixtus II. On his return from See also:Italy Suger was appointed abbot of St Denis. Until 1127 he occupied himself at court mainly with the temporal affairs of the See also:kingdom, while during the following See also:decade he devoted himself to the reorganization and reform of St Denis. In 1137 he accompanied the future king, Louis VII., into See also:Aquitaine on the occasion of that See also:prince's See also:marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, and during the second crusade was one of the regents of the kingdom (1147-1149), He was bitterly opposed to the king's See also:divorce, having himself advised the marriage. Although he disapproved of the second crusade, he himself, at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his See also:death, on the 31st of See also:January 1151, was See also:preaching a new crusade.
Suger was the friend and counsellor both of Louis VI. and Louis VII. He urged the king to destroy the feudal bandits, was responsible for the royal See also:tactics in dealing with the communal movements, and endeavoured to regularize the See also:administration of See also:justice. He See also:left his abbey, which possessed considerable See also:property, enriched and embellished by the construction of a new See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church built in the nascent See also:Gothic See also:style.
Suger was the foremost historian of his time. He was the
' Known in French as Guitguits, a name used for them also by some See also:English writers. The Guitguit of Hernandez (Rer. medic. N. hisp. See also:thesaurus, p. 56), a name said by him to be of native origin, can hardly be determined, though thought by Montbeillard (Hist. nat. oiseaux, v. 529) to be what is now known as Coereba caerulea, but that of later writers is C. cyanea. The name is probably onomatopoetic, and very likely analogous to the " quit ' applied in See also:Jamaica to several small birds.author of a See also:panegyric on Louis VI. (Vita Ludovici regis), and See also:part-author of the perhaps more impartial See also:history of Louis VII. (Historia gloriosi regis Ludovici). In his See also:Liber de See also:rebus in administratione sua gestis, and its supplement Libellus de consecratione ecclesiae S. Dionysii, he treats of the improvements he had made to St Denis, describes the treasure of the church, and gives an See also:account of the rebuilding. Suger's See also:works served to imbue the monks of St Denis with a See also:taste for history, and called forth a See also:long See also:series of quasi-See also:official See also:chronicles.
See O. Cartellieri, See also:Abt Suger von See also:Saint-Denis (See also:Berlin, 1898); A. See also:Luchaire, Louis le See also:Gros (Paris, 189o) ; F. A. Gereaise, Histoire de Suger (Paris, 1721).
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