Hugues de Pairaud

Hugues de Pairaud (also Perraud, Peraudo, Peraut or Desperaut) was one of the leaders of the Knights Templar. He and Geoffroi de Gonneville (the Preceptor of Aquitaine) were sentenced to life imprisonment on March 18, 1314. They were spared the fate of Jacques de Molay (Grand Master) and Geoffroi de Charney (Preceptor of Normandy), who were both burned at the stake, because they accepted their sentence in silence.[1]

In 1297 de Pairaud contested the election of Jacques de Molay as grand master.[2]

In 1304 Pairaud supported Philip IV of France against Boniface VIII.[3]

  1. ^ Barber, Malcolm The Trial of the Templars, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. p 3
  2. ^ Gilmour-Bryson, Anne The Trial of the Templars in the Papal State and the Abruzzi, (Citta del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1982): 10.
  3. ^ Barber, Malcolm The Trial of the Templars, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. p 41