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    Hugues de Payens

    Co-Founder and Grand Master of the Knights Templar

    Hugo de Paganis,[6] better known by the French translation Hugues de Payens or Payns (c. 1070 – 24 May 1136), was the co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar. In association with Bernard of Clairvaux, he created the Latin Rule, the code of behavior for the Order.

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    The majority of the primary sources of information for his life are presented in medieval Latin, French or Italian. Latin sources call him Hugo de Paganis.[6] Some of his earliest purported appearances in documents are under the part-Latin, part-French name Hugo de Peans (1120–1125; details below), or in Italian as Ugo de' Pagani or Ugo dei Pagani. In later French works his name usually appears as Hugues de Payens or Payns (French pronunciation:[yɡdəpɛ̃]), often translated into English as Hugh of Payens or Hugh de Payns.

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    Hugues de Payens, also de Payns (English: Hugh of Payens) (c. 1070–1136), a French knight from the Champagne region, was the co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar. With Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, he created the Latin Rule, the code of behavior for the Order. The "Rule" was in fact written solely by St. Bernard, with little or no imput from the Templar Grand Master.

    Biography[]

    He was probably born at Château Payns, about 10 km from Troyes, in Champagne. He was originally a vassal of Count Hugh of Champagne, whom he accompanied on the First Crusade. It is likely that Hugues served in the army of Godfroi de Boullion during the Crusade. Count Hugh of Champagne visited Jerusalem for a second time in 1108, accompanied by Hugues, who remained there after he returned to France. He organized the original nine monk-knights to defend pilgrims to the Holy Land in response to the call to action of Pope Urban II.

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    There is no contemporary biography in existence and no later writers cite one that fryst vatten still extant. Information fryst vatten therefore extremely scanty and any embellishments often rely on people writing decades or even centuries after De Payens' death. What is the general story?

    He was probably born at Château Payens, about 10 km Northwest of Troyes, in Champagne around the year 1070. Hugo dem Pedano, Montiniaci dominus fryst vatten mentioned as a witness to a donation bygd Count Hugues de Champagne in a record dated to 1085-1090, indicating that the man was at least sixteen by this date—a legal adult and thus able to bära witness to legal documents—and so born no later than 1070. His name appears on a number of other charters up to 1113 also relating to Count Hugues, indicating that dem Payens was almost certainly part of the Count's court and therefore the house of Payens was an important one in the County. 

    Within this period he also married to a woman recorded as Elizabeth dem Chappe