Peter of Montereau

Pierre de Montreuil and Pierre de Montereau (* 1200, † March 17, 1267 ) is one of the few whose names are known architects of his time. He is regarded as a pioneer in high Gothic.

Biography

Pierre de Montreuil was allegedly involved after his time spent in the Champagne formative years from 1231 to the construction of the abbey church of Saint- Denis. 1239 mentioned as a master, he concludes on the expansive, then still at the gates located of Paris site of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Germain -des- Prés under Abbot Simon (Abt 1239-1244 ) the north side of the cloister by a refectory from and built from 1235 there, a little further east, the nave, 32 m long and 15 m high, light-filled " Chapelle de la Vierge " ( Mary's Chapel ). Of these buildings, which were the destructiveness of the Revolutionary victim remained of the refectory only Childebert Statue ( Louvre ) from the central pillar of the cloister portal receive and from the chapel just a few fragments in the north of the former abbey church nearby garden as well as a portal which is preserved in the Musée national du Moyen Âge.

Lack of evidence remains doubtful whether Pierre de Montreuil also often attributed to him, between 1235 to 1248 by order of King Louis IX. the Holy erected two-story palace chapel of Sainte -Chapelle ( 1235-1248 ) created, created as part of the former royal castle Palais de la Cité to keep the crown of thorns of Christ. Also without proof is now suspected that a builder worked here from the vicinity of Robert de Luzarches, the architect of the Cathedral of Amiens.

In the last years of his life to master worked at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, where he completed the south transept, whose foundation stone was laid in 1258.

Attributed to him also the palace chapels of castles of Vincennes and Saint- Germain -en- Laye ( 1230-1238 ) and the former refectory of the Abbey of St -Martin -des- Champs in Paris, now the library of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers.

Pierre de Montreuil died on March 17, 1267 in Paris. He was, like his wife Agnes, in the Abbey of St. Germain -des- Prés buried in the " Chapelle de la Vierge ," which he himself had built. The 1794 destroyed grave stone was the architect with a compass in the hands, which are often quoted and reproduced inscription read " vivens doctor latomorum, Musterolo natus, jecet hic Peter tumulatus ".

A brother - or son - by Pierre de Montreuil named Eudes de Montreuil and his son Raoul de Montreuil both bore the title " maîtres the œuvres du roi ".