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Gerard’s first master-at-arms. 1 If he was thebrother of that Sir Hugh de Pagano who foundedthe Templars, it is a noble origin, and agrees withthe prevailing opinion that they sprang from theHospitallers; not from their servants, as Bromptonpretends, but from their knights, their knightstheir own illustrious equals ! 5

In the first pitched battle, the knights of theorder were led by the then marshal, or master-at-arms, who was afterwards to become the famousGrand Master Raymond du Puys. But that Ray-mond was not a precise companion of Gerard’s inthe first crusade (as Paoli elsewhere proves), is noimpediment to his having been master-at-arms,and fought while Gerard was president or provost. 3It is very probable that the celebrity gained byRaymond as marshal, may truly have given rise tohis election to be the head of the order. 4 Bosiohas Revel; but that De Moulin was in 1181, iscertain. Yet the sole difference is about the grand ,which does not merit many words. The Gardinermentioned in England, is not the same man whobecame grand master after De Moulin. Theymay have been near relations, and probably were,or even brothers; but were two different persons,

1 P. A. Paoli : 276.3 Id. : 280.

2 Appendix, Sum, xxxyii.4 P. A. Paoli: 283.