Hugues de Pairaud (Visitor of the Temple) 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.In 1297 de Pairaud
contested the election of Jacques de Molay as grand master.In 1297 de
Pairaud contested the election of Jacques de Molay as grand master.In
1304 Pairaud supported Philip IV of France against Boniface VIII.The
charges brought against Hugues de Pairaud are similar to those brought
against all the others during the Knights Templar Trial. Pairaud was
implicated in the worship of false idols by Raoul de Gizy, who claimed
to have seen a mysterious head in seven Templar houses, some of them
held by Hugues de Pairaud. Pairaud was accused of taking Jean de Cugy
"behind an altar and kissing him on the base of the spine and the
navel." De Cugy also claimed that Pairaud had threatened him with life
imprisonment if he did not deny Christ and spit on a cross, and that
Pairaud had told him that it was permissible for brothers to have
sexual intercourse with other brothers (sodomy). Hugues de Pairaud Top Movies & Young Movies