# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/suger
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:45:34.812Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/suger"
name: "Suger"
slug: "suger"
description: "A 12th-century French abbot who rebuilt his church and accidentally invented Gothic architecture — those pointed arches and floods of light that defined European skylines for the next 400 years."
tagline: "French abbot-statesmen, historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture (1080-1151)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Suger_cour_Napoleon_Louvre.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1080"
deathDate: "1151-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Suger was born around 1081 and rose to become abbot of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, but his influence stretched far beyond the monastery. He served as a key advisor to King Louis VI and later to Louis VII, wielding enough trust to act as regent of France while the king rode off to the Second Crusade. His writings became foundational sources for understanding early 12th-century Capetian rule. But the work that outlasted the politics was his reconstruction of Saint-Denis itself — a project that introduced the structural and aesthetic principles that would crystallize into the Gothic style. He died on 13 January 1151, having reshaped both the French state and the architecture of the sacred.