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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.

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The majority of the primary sources of information for his life are presented in medieval Latin, French or Italian. 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.

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