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Personal data Baldwin II of Jerusalem King of Jerusalem Count of Edessa . Approved the start of the Knights Templars. see notes 

• He was born in the year 1060 in Bourg Rethel, Bourg Fidèle, Ardennes, Grand Est, France.
• He died on August 21, 1131 in Jerusalem, Israel, he was 71 years old.
• A child of Hugh I Count of Rethel and Melisende of Crécy of Montlhéry

Household of Baldwin II of Jerusalem King of Jerusalem Count of Edessa . Approved the start of the Knights Templars. see notes

He had a relationship with Malfia of Meliteme (Morphia de Mélitene) queen of Jerusalem.

Child(ren):

1. Mélisende d'Édesse (de Rethel)  1105-1161 
2. Alix de Rethel  ± 1110-1131 

Notes about Baldwin II of Jerusalem King of Jerusalem Count of Edessa . Approved the start of the Knights Templars. see notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_II_of_Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugues_de_Payens
http://www.lordsandladies.org/names-of-knights-templar-leaders.htm

The foundation of the Order
Hugh, Count of Champagne made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1104–07 and visited Jerusalem for a second time in 1114–16. It is probable that he was accompanied by Hugues de Payens, who remained there after the Count returned to France as there is a charter with "Hugonis de Peans" in the witness list from Jerusalem in 1120 and again in 1123. In 1125 his name appears again as a witness to a donation, this time accompanied by the title "magister militum Templi" ("Master of the Knights of the Temple"). He most likely obtained approval for the Order from King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem at the Council of Nablus in 1120.[11]

One early chronicler, Simon de St. Bertin, implies that the Knights Templar originated earlier, before the death of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1100: "While he [Godfrey] was reigning magnificently, some had decided not to return to the shadows of the world after suffering such dangers for God's sake. On the advice of the princes of God's army they vowed themselves to God's Temple under this rule: they would renounce the world, give up personal goods, free themselves to pursue purity, and lead a communal life wearing a poor habit, only using arms to defend the land against the attacks of the insurgent pagans when necessity demanded."[12]

Later chroniclers write that Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem (whose reign began in 1118) with eight knights, two of whom were brothers and all of whom were his relatives by either blood or marriage, in order to form the Order of the Knights Templar. The other knights were Godfrey de Saint-Omer, Payen de Montdidier, Archambaud de St. Agnan, André de Montbard, Geoffrey Bison, and two men recorded only by the names of Rossal and Gondamer. Baldwin approved the foundation of the Order and entrusted the Temple of Jerusalem to its care.

Count Hugh of Champagne himself joined the Knights Templar on his third visit to the Holy Land in 1125.

As Grand Master, Hugues de Payens led the Order for almost twenty years until his death, helping to establish the Order's foundations as an important and influential military and financial institution. On his visit to England and Scotland in 1128, he raised men and money for the Order, and also founded their first House in London and another near Edinburgh at Balantrodoch, now known as Temple, Midlothian. The Latin Rule laying down the way of life of the Order, attributed to Hugues de Payens and Bernard of Clairvaux, was confirmed in 1129 at the Council of Troyes over which Pope Honorius II presided.

Hugues de Payens died, apparently in Palestine, in 1136. The circumstances and date of his death are not recorded in any chronicle, though the Templars commemorated him every year on 24 May, and it's presumed he died of old age. The 16th century historian Marco Antonio Guarini claimed that Hugues was buried in the Church of San Giacomo at Ferrara.[13] He was succeeded as Grand Master by Robert de Craon.

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