Templars

History of D'Autrey, P.D. Mouton, 1868. Translated by Jean Louis Guichard, Autrey les Gray, France. (Please remember English is not Mr. Guichard's first language and he is translating as he learns English).

THE ORDER OF TEMPLARS

Not only Autrey gave two lords for the crusades, but also there was there an order of Templars to comfort the crusaders. We have two indisputable proofs.

1. A living tradition tells us they lived in the priory near the church as the ones of Jerusalem near the temple. One shows a well on the road of Fahy. This estate included the place of the new cemetery which is called the "Field of the Temple".
2. Different charters in the records of Vesoul and Dijon: a donation in 1191 in which Guy-Dunge gave to the brother of the Temple an estate at Autrey, in the presence of the bishop of Langres, and another in 1213. It is a judgment which ended a disagreement between (c) three different donations by Guillaume, Ist of Vergy and Reneve in 1228, 1229, and 1234 to the Templars of Autrey. The King Philippe le Bel, after 1307, having dissolved this order, the Templars' possessions were divided between the King and the order of Saint Jean de Jerusalem.
3. When Hugues V of Beaumont, and Hugues Ist of Vergy came back from Holy Land, a number of crusaders who had followed them brought the leper, contagious sickness which, tainting the blood, covers the corpse with small pimples which devour and taint.