Hugh de payens biography of alberta canada

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 medieval Latin, French or Italian.

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Latin sources call him Hugo de Paganis. There is no known early biography of Hugo de Paganis in existence, nor do later writers cite such a biography. None of the sources on his later career give details of his early life. Information is therefore scanty and uncertain; embellishments depend partly on documents that may not refer to the same individual, and partly on histories written decades or even centuries after his death.

The Latin text actually calls him simply Hugo de Paganis , [ 6 ] but the French translation by Paulin Paris, dated to , describes him as Hues de Paiens delez Troies "Hugh of Payens near Troyes" , [ 23 ] a reference to the village of Payns , about 10 km from Troyes , in Champagne eastern France. In early documents of that region Hugo de Pedano, Montiniaci dominus is mentioned as a witness to a donation by Count Hugh of Champagne in a document of —90, indicating that the man was at least sixteen by this date—a legal adult and thus able to bear witness to legal documents—and so born no later than The same name appears on a number of other charters up to also relating to Count Hugh of Champagne, suggesting that Hugo de Pedano or Hugo dominus de Peanz was a member of the Count's court.

By the year , he was married to Elizabeth de Chappes, who bore him at least one child, Thibaud, later abbot of the Abbaye de la Colombe at Sens. The documents span Hugh's lifetime and the disposition of his property after his death.

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The one belated statement that the founder of the Knights Templars came from "Payns near Troyes" has some circumstantial confirmation. Bernard of Clairvaux , who favoured the Order and helped to compose its Latin Rule , also had the support of Hugh of Champagne. A Templar commandery was eventually built at Payns. Some scholars have however looked for Hugh's origins elsewhere.