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The Life of Hughes de Payens
The Life of Hughes de Payens Hugues de Payens, the Knights Templar's co-founder and first Grand Master. Hugh can also be spelled Hugues de Payens or Hugues de Payns. They took part in the First Crusade, a two-hundred-year battle for control of Jerusalem between the Christian West and the Islamic Middle East. Around 1118, Hugues de Payens founded; an order that became the Poor Knights of Christ, Temple of Solomon, with his eight relatives. The Knights Templar were one of several military...
