This was the self-same Hugh who, as a former overlord (and possibly relative) of Hugh of Payns, had resigned his title in 1125 and joined the Order of the Temple in Jerusalem. (Bernard of Clairvaux had written to commend him around the time of his abdication: “You from being a count have become a simple soldier, from being a rich man have become poor.”)22 When the council assembled in 1129 Hugh remained in the Holy Land, but it was his connections and wealth that had drawn together the master of the Temple and the abbot of Clairvaux.
