Suger

It didn't help that Henry was fully on edge already due to other near assassinations around that time.

For instance, Abbot Sugar, who we will certainly discuss in more detail in the future, especially when we get to Gothic architecture and whatnot.

Well, he was very close to King Louis VI and his sons after him.

Well, Abbot Sugar wrote about Henry's mercy when it came to an assassin we only know as H.

This assassin named H was apparently a servant of his who was persuaded to take a crack at the King of England, but he failed.

That's really all we know about it.

He was also a canny diplomat.

He managed to avoid a major conflict with the English King Henry I, and he established a close relationship with the powerful Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, who became his chief advisor and later a key figure in the next king's reign.

Speaking of the next king, Louis VI's son, Louis VII, inherited a more stable kingdom, but he was a very different man from his father.

He was pious and well-intentioned, but he lacked his father's political shrewdness and military grit.