The Ninth Templar Origins

By Don Holbrook

The adventures of the founder of the Knights Templar Order, Sir Hugh de Payen.  This book gives you a fictionalized tale surrounding the unsolved mystery of the Knights Templar discovery in Jerusalem in 1126 and the reason their founder Sir Hugh de Payen chose to keep the ninth founding member of the Order's members name anonymous.  It

• Language: English
• Publisher: Two Knights One Horse Publishing
• Release date: Jun 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781087892580

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The Ninth Templar’s Origin

The Unsolved Legend of the Knight’s Templar

By

Don Allen Holbrook

The Knights Templar Order remains one of the most sought after unsolved mysteries of all time. Their Founder Sir Hugh de Payens of from the Champagne region of France near Troyes was part of the Crusader force that sacked Jerusalem in 1099.

Gustav Dore’s illiustration of the Siege of Jerusalem First Crusade

This began the French’s knights mission he was dispatched to carry out at the direction of his liege lord the Count of Champagne, it was a quest for the great undiscovered mysteries of the Jewish Capital City and its’ people.

Hugh de Payens 1170 Ad- 1136 AD

was the founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar. Later he worked closely with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who created the Latin Rule, the code of behavior for the Order.

There is no known early biography of Hugues de Payens 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, partly on histories written decades or even centuries after his death.

The same name appears on a number of other charters up to 1113 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 1113 he was married to Elizabeth de Chappes, who bore him at least one child, Thibaud, later abbot of Abbaye de la Colombe|la Colombe at Sens. The documents span Hugues’ lifetime and the disposition of his property after his death.

But Sir Hugh at that time had no idea how this quest would change him forever at the time of setting out to fulfill his liege lords orders.

Sir Hugh de Payens, a French Knight during the First Crusade and his men await the breach in the great walls of Jerusalem in 1099.

The Ha Rav Rabbi, Jerusalem 1099

Ha Rav is the leader of the Jewish religious people as the highest holy authority in the Temple hierarchy.

Hugh felt that the Ha Rav Rabbi would be the most likely source of information to find the whereabouts to the hidden treasures and relics he and his liege lord the Count of Champagne.

Many speculate this quest began with his intent to capture the Ha Rav (Highest Jewish Rabbi’s and his Family) in order to force the high Rabbi to give him information regarding the possible whereabouts of the legendary Jewish Treasures.

But when he sacked the residence in during the fall of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the Ha Rav Rabbi had narrowly escaped. He had been forced to leave his family behind.

The Fall and Sack of Jerusalem in 1099

The early Arab rulers of Jerusalem for the most part did not destroy or confiscate any of the city’s churches. Although charged an entrance toll, Christian pilgrims continued to visit their sacred shrines.