SUGER, Abbot (1081-1151), was not an architect; neither does he seem to have been responsible, even as an amateur, for any architectural work. But as he was abbot of St. Denis, outside Paris, when the abbey church was partly rebuilt (c. 1135-44), and as this was the building where the Gothic style was to all intents and purposes invented, or where it finally evolved out of the scattered elements already existing in many places, his name must be recorded here.

He wrote two books on the abbey in which the new building is commented on, but nowhere refers to the designer or indeed explicitly to the innovations incorporated in the building.

From the Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition.

[...] On a certain day when, with a downpour of rain, a dark opacity had covered the turbid air, those accustomed to assist in the work [of quarrying stone for columns--Ed.] while the carts were coming down to the quarry went off because of the violence of the rain. The ox-drivers complained and protested that they had nothing to do and that the laborers were standing around and losing time. Clamoring, they grew so insistent that some weak and disabled persons together with a few boys seventeen in number and, if I am not mistaken, with a priest present--hastened to the quarry, picked up one of the ropes, fastened it to a column and abandoned another shaft which was lying on the ground; for there was nobody who would undertake to haul this one. [...]