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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1062.
• Hij is overleden op 14 juni 1126, hij was toen 64 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Thibaut III de Blois en Alix de Crépy de Nanteuil

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Notities over Hugues I de Champagne

he was a Knight of the Order of the Temple.
He was the vassal of Hugues de Payns. In 1104 they went together on crusade. He came back in 1107.
in august 1114 he went back together with Hugues de Payns to the Holy land. He came back in 1116.
In 1125 he donated all his belongings to his nephew Thibaut IV de Blois and netered the order of the Temple in the Holy Land.

Hugues de Payns was the first grand master of the Temple order. It is quite possible that Hugues de Champagne, was also one of the nine knights who founded officially the order in the Cathedral of Troyes in 1128 which has been confirmed He was probably born at Château Payns, about 10 km from Troyes, in Champagne.
He was originally a vassal of Count Hugh of Champagne, whom he accompanied on the First Crusade. It is likely that Hugues served in the army of Godfroi de Boullion during the Crusade.
Count Hugh of Champagne visited Jerusalem for a second time , accompanied by Hugues, who remained there after he returned to France. He organized the original nine monk-knights to defend pilgrims to the Holy Land in response to the call to action of Pope Urban II.

De Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem 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 first of the KnightsTemplar.

The other knights were Godfrey de Saint-Omer, Payen de Montdidier, Archambaud de St. Agnan, Andre de Montbard, Geoffrey Bison, and two men recorded only by the names of Rossal and Gondamer. The ninth knight remains unknown, although some have speculated that it was Count Hugh of Champagne himself.

As Grand Master, he led the Order for almost twenty years until his death, helping to establish the Order's foundations as an important and influential international 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 [1], now known as Temple, Midlothian.

He died in the Holy land in 1136
(Source Wikipedia)

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