Who was Hugues de Payens?

Who was Hugues de Payens?

1) Hugues de Payens or Hugo de Paganis (ca 1070–1136), was a Frankish knight from the Champagne Region. Hugh de Payens was a vassal of Hugues I, Count of Champagne. Little information of Hugues de Payens exists and no sources on his later career give details of his early life.

Are there any living descendants of Saint Hugh de Payens?

Hugh de Payens left no descendants. 2) Godefroy de Saint-Omer (known also as Geoffroi or Godfrey) was a Flemish knight and a founding member of the Knights Templar in 1129. He is said to have come from the family of the Lords of SaintOmer in Pas-de-Calais, possibly a son of William I de Saint-Omer and Arganitrude de Brugge.

Is Hugues de Payens the father of the Knights Templar?

Hugues has also been identified with Hug de Pinós, third son of Galceran I, lord of Pinós in Catalonia; however, Galceran married only in 1090, far too late a date for him to be the father of the founder of the Knights Templars. There is also a claim that Hugues de Payens or Ugo de’ Pagani came from Nocera de’ Pagani in Campania, southern Italy.

Was Hugues de Payens’wife Catherine St Clair?

It has recently been claimed that the wife of Hugues de Payens was Catherine St. Clair within the context of the alternative history of Rosslyn. Hugues is the main protagonist of the Jack Whyte novel Knights of the Black and White .

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. The majority of the primary sources of information for his life are presented in Latin or the medieval French language.

Where did Hugues Antoine come from?

The Latin Rule of the Order was confirmed at the Council of Troyes in 1129. A Templar commandery was eventually built at Payns. Some scholars have however looked for Hugues’ origins elsewhere. There was an early claim that he came from the Vivarais (the district of Viviers in the modern département of Ardèche ).