Hugues de Payens

Hugues de Payens

Hugues de Payens (c. 1070 – 1136) was a French knight and the first Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Templar. He was the first officially recognized Grand Master since the official foundation of the Templar Brotherhood as a knightly order. Together with Bernard de Clairvaux, he wrote the Latin Rule, the Creed of the Templars.

Trivia

• The Latin Rule was a document with 72 clauses.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia