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In 1296 he held the post of Preceptor in Saint-Giles, and from 1298 was Lieutenant to the Master of Provence. As Daray and Lurs, played their part in the recruitment of new members, and unlike them he held an important position within the order. Templar Knight Barral de Gauzignan, Preceptor of Le Puy in Provence. His name was not mentioned in the trials of the French Templars, and as such we have to assume his flight from capture had been a success. Hugues Daray (Dares) an official within the Temple, who in 1306 was responsible for the acceptance of new recruits into the Order at La Fuilhouse (Fulhosa), Auvergne. Once he held the position of Lieutenant of the Visitor Hugues de Pairaud, and if captured could be a valuable witness, if turned by the French against the Knights Templar. It is believed he opposed the action of spitting on the cross. Guillaume de Lins (Gillierm de Lurs), and it is believed he fled the order in 1307, before the roundup of members of the Templar Order in 1308. We know little of him, other than he be a member of the Templar Order, who had initially escaped large round ups, and was captured shortly thereafter.

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One Renaud de la Folie, a Knight Templar was brought to trial in 1309. This young twenty-five-year-old knight, attempted to evade capture by French forces, by changing his clothes, removing his beard, yet his pursuers caught and arrested this Lieutenant of the Order. Knights Templar Pierre de Boucle (Pierre de Bouch) brother of Petrus de Bocli, who had escaped justice. His sentence saw him sent to prison and clapped in irons.

Depositions made by French Templars in Clermont, reached English shores, and Humbert Blanc was accused of Blasphemy, a charge he denied, but the Judges didnвЂ™t believe his claim to innocence.

In 1308 he was arrested according to Canterbury records, and in 1309 was brought forward to testify at the trials against TemplarвЂ™s in London. By the time the trials of the Knights Templar had started in France, Humbert Blanc was in England. He had seen active duty in the Holy Land, returned to his homeland of France, where he received the appointment of Lieutenant to the master of Auvergne, and in 1299 appointed to the post of Master of Auvergne. One Humbert Blanc (Humbertus Blancus) an old knight of forty years. King Philip IV believed the Order of the Knights Templar was destined to come to an end, however that was not to beвЂ¦ For some leading members of the Order of the French Templar Knights were to escapeвЂ¦

With the Knights Templar disbanded, and many put to death, burnt at the stake on trumped up charges of heresy. Philip convinced Pope Clement that these Knights Templar were committing acts of heresy. Philip had to come up with a plan of action, one which would destroy the Order of the Knights Templar, and see their wealth confiscated by the French Monarchy.ДЄny plan of action had to be undertaken by legal means, and that is where his puppet Pope Clement V, came in. The French Monarchy was in debt to the Order of the Knights Templar, and King Philip IV saw French assets dwindling away.

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