Chronologically Godfrey may have been Hugh's brother but it is also said that he was Hugo's son. There are conflicting reports as to Godfrey's relationship to William and Hugh. Hugh de Saint-Omer was also mentioned as one of the best knights in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. William and Melisende were known to have a son, Hugh, and both William and Hugh participated in the First Crusade as vassals of Robert II of Flanders. He is said to have come from the family of the Lords of Saint-Omer (in northern France), possibly the son of William I, Lord of Saint Omer and Melisende de Piquigny. Godfrey of Saint-Omer, also known as Gaufred, Godefroi, or Godfrey de St Omer, was a Flemish knight, and one of the founding members of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon in c. The Order had several names: the 'Militia of the Poor Knights of Christ', the 'Knights of the Holy City', the 'Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem', the 'Holy Jerusalem Militia of the Temple of Solomon.' Over time the most common name was 'Templars.' The official garment was the white cloak to which, around 1147, Pope Eugene III added a Maltese cross. The Order of the Temple was created and endowed with the rule of the 'soldier monk': simplicity, poverty, chastity and prayer. The rule of the Temple is thus a Cistercian rule, which contains great analogies with the rule of Cîteaux It could not be otherwise, since its inspirer had been Saint Bernard. Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, and a clergyman named Jean Michel were commissioned to draft a rule during the session, which was read and approved by the members of the council. Hugo de Payens recounted in this council the humble beginnings of his work, which at that time only had nine knights, and highlighted the urgent need to create a militia capable of protecting the crusaders and, above all, the pilgrims to Holy Land, and requested that the council deliberate on the constitution to be given to said Order. Present at the council were: Cardinal Mateo de Albano (representative of the Pope) the Archbishops of Reims and Sens another ten bishops eight Cistercian abbots from the abbeys of Vézelay, Cîteaux, Clairvaux (specifically, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux ), Pontigny, Troisfontaines and Molesmes and some lay personalities among which are Tybalt II of Champagne, André de Baudemont, the seneschal of Champagne, the Count of Nevers and a few Cistercian clergymen, who promoted reformist ideas and without their presence, which was highly positive, their Rule of Life would not have been approved anyway.

The Pope agrees to convene a council at Troyes to discuss the matter.

He left for Rome with five companions (including Godfrey de Saint-Omer ) in order to request official recognition from Pope Honorius II. In the autumn of 1127, Hugo de Payens (1070-1136) sought recognition from the order he had founded, which was going through a growth crisis, wishing to favor its extension in the Christian West. The council of Troyes was a council of the Catholic Church, which was convened in the French city of Troyes on Janu, with the main purpose of officially recognizing the Order of the Temple.

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