Hugues de Payens

Hugues de Payens

Hugues de Payens (c. 1070 –  24 May 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 foundation of the Templar Brotherhood as a knightly order. Together with Bernard de Clairvaux, he wrote the Latin Rule, the Creed of the Templars.

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  Baldwin II of Jerusalem ceding Al-Aqsa Mosque to Hugues de Payens and the Templars

Reference

• Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia