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« on: January 29, 2012, 07:17:53 pm »




   


HUGUES DE PAYNS MUSEUM
Secrets of the Knights Templar in Champagne


Musee Hugues de Payens photoPower and secrecy are a heady combination and humans just can’t get enough of the mysteries of secret societies that seem to operate in the dark shadows of politics and religion, from the DaVinci Code’s reliance on the mostly made up ‘Priory of Scion” to the involvement of the Freemasons in America’s founding. Many of these fictional or imaginative conspiracy theories originate with the very real history of The Order of the Knights Templar and a piece of that mysterious history can be found in a small town in central France near Troyes.

The Knights Templar, officially known as "The Order of the Poor Brothers-in-Arms of Christ for the Protection of the Temple of Solomon" was founded in 1128 by the Catholic Council of Troyes. The first Templars were a small group of 9 medieval knights dedicated to religious piety, chastity and poverty, led by a minor nobleman from the Champagne region of central France who had served in the First Crusade, Hugues de Payns (various spellings - Hughes de Payens or Pagens). The original intent of the order was to protect the safety of Christian Pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. The Templars were promoted and supported by local French cleric Bernard of Clairvaux ( see Saint Bernard Chatillon-Sur-Seine) as head of the Cistercian monastic order in Champagne and Burgundy whose writing was central to instigation of the Second Crusade. Over time the idea of chastity and poverty faded as the Templars became a great economic power through their handling of a medieval version of a banking system, passing money through the order by means of the travels of its knights and Cistercian monks and network of monasteries (see Abbey Fontenay) between Europe and the Holy Lands. The Templar order was brutally crushed in a swift power play by French King Phillip the Fair (see Dijon), when all of it’s order was arrested on the ever-since unlucky night of Friday 13th, 1307. Many were tortured, executed and its Grand Master Jacques de Molay, burnt at the stake, bringing us the word "immolation".
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