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Pierre de Montereau or Pierre de Montreuil (c.1200 - 17 March 1266, Paris) was a French architect. He is widely recognized as one of the most important proponents of Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
, though little is known of his life and sources vary as to which buildings are by him.

After some time training in Champagne
Champagne, France

Champagne is a historic Provinces of France in the northeast of France, now best known for the Champagne that bears its name. Its western edge is about 100 miles east of Paris....
, he worked on the Basilique Saint-Denis until around 1231. His talent was noticed and he was summoned around 1239 by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s, just beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria....
 to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 to build them a new refectory.






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Pierre de Montereau or Pierre de Montreuil (c.1200 - 17 March 1266, Paris) was a French architect. He is widely recognized as one of the most important proponents of Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
, though little is known of his life and sources vary as to which buildings are by him.

After some time training in Champagne
Champagne, France

Champagne is a historic Provinces of France in the northeast of France, now best known for the Champagne that bears its name. Its western edge is about 100 miles east of Paris....
, he worked on the Basilique Saint-Denis until around 1231. His talent was noticed and he was summoned around 1239 by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s, just beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria....
 to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 to build them a new refectory. Between 1246 and 1248 he built his masterpiece, the Sainte-Chapelle
Sainte-Chapelle

La Sainte-Chapelle is a Gothic architecture chapel on the ?le de la Cit? in the heart of Paris, France. It is perhaps the high point of the full tide of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture....
, for Louis IX
Louis IX of France

Louis IX , commonly Saint Louis, was List of French monarchs from 1226 to his death. He was also Counts of Artois from 1226 to 1237. Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was a member of the House of Capet and the son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile....
. Situated on the Île de la Cité
Île de la Cité

File:Image-Notre Dame de Paris on ?le de la Cit? Edit 1 - July 2006.jpgThe ?le de la Cit? is one of two natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris ....
, it represents a model of Gothic art, filled with openings and windows and reducing the walls to a minimum. He also built a Sainte-Chapelle at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

The Ch?teau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a French royal palace in the commune in France of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the d?partement in France of Yvelines, about 19 km west of Paris....
, the initial home of the relics meant for the Paris Sainte-Chapelle. Around 1250, he built the single-nave Sainte-Chapelle de Notre-Dame in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Also attributed to him, around 1260, is the modification of the transept arms of Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame de Paris is a Gothic architecture cathedral on the eastern half of the ?le de la Cit? in the 4th arrondissement of Paris of Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west....
, as well as the chapel at château de Vincennes
Château de Vincennes

The Ch?teau de Vincennes is a massive 14th and 17th century France royal castle in the town of Vincennes, to the east of Paris, now a suburb of the metropolis....
 and the refectory of the abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs in Paris (today the library of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

The Conservatoire National des Arts et M?tiers , or National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, is a doctoral-granting higher education establishment operated by the France government dedicated to providing education and conducting research for the promotion of science and industry....
).

He was buried with his wife in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in the chapel he had built. His epitaph is engraved on the tomb and gives his title as docteur ès pierre (doctor in stone). This chapel and the refectory of Saint-Germain-des-Prés were demolished in 1794.