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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.
Name
The majority of the primary sources of information for his life are presented in medieval Latin, French or Italian.
The Templars were the first of the orders to be formed.
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.
Remarkably, Italian Ugo de' Pagani and Fren