The alleged chair of King Dagobert I. (d. 638) in the Louvre is, perhaps, the oldest existing example of European furniture. Its origin is doubtful and its pedigree appears to begin only in the twelfth century, when it is known to have been in the Abbey of St. Denis which, according to Suger, its Abbot, inherited it from Dagobert himself. The chair is of cast bronze, sharpened with the chisel, and partially gilt. It was made originally on the principle of the Egyptian X-shaped stool, which later became popular in Ancient Greece and Rome, with animal-headed "hocked" front legs terminating in claw feet connected together by a vertical scissor-like stretcher and back legs with a similar stretcher connected with the front one by a central hinge-rod. The side rods supported the seat, which may have been of leather. The back and hinged arms are of mixed Byzantine and Gothic feeling, and were added by Abbot Suger in the twelfth century. There is an admirable reproduction of the chair in electro-bronze in the Victoria and Albert Museum. See X-shape Chair.