Hugh De DE PAYEN, Sir

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Sir Hugh de Payen, supposed to be younger son of Pagen of Domesday, and because he was younger, was without inheritance, went with Robert of Normandy on the first Crusade in 1099. He remained for some time in Palestine, and with Godfrey St.Omer founded the Order of the Templars of the Cross, which attained great size and power during the Middle Ages. (See Ridpath's History of the World") He was sent by King Baldwin II of Palestine as envoy to the Kings of France and England, and he was a very famous crusader. Hugh D. and his brother Edmund Paiene were the first of the family to have both given and surnames.
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THE PAYNE FAMILY CAN BE TRACED BACK TO 1590 AND SOME TO 1060. THE NAME ORIGINATED IN NORMANDY AND THE FIRST ANCESTOR "HUGH DE PAYEN" WAS A SON OF THE PAGE WHO WENT TO ENGLAND WITH WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. HUGH DE PAYEN WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF
THE FIRST CRUSADES. HE ESTABLISHED THE ORDER OF TEMPLORS IN ENGLAND IN 1118.
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1. Sir Thomas PAYNE, Of Market Bosworth, Sir was born before 1145 in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England; died in Unknown in France.

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The Payne name is Norman in origin and is supposed to be a corruption of "Pagen", which was a term applied to the Tenth and Eleventh centuries, not only to individuals who were slow about embracing Christianity, but also to country people, in general, as being proverbially "slow". It was about this time in history that surnames came into use. The first that is known to have borne this name was "Pagen" of Domesday. He was a Norman who went over to England from Normandy in the time of Edward the Confessor, before the Norman Conquest. When William the Conquerer came, in 1066, Pagen's fortunes were greatly enhanced. Domeday Book, which was an enumeration of the estates of England, made in and about 1086, shows that Pagen held lands in sixteen counties, notes that he had the right to go "withersoever he would". He died at about this time, and left an eldest son, Edward who inherited his estates. ...

... The Paines and Paynes are the same Norman origin, but those who went to England with William the Conquerer did not Angelicize the name by changing the i to the y. The North Carolina branch of Paines are of the Ipswich, Massachusetts branch. The Roanoke, Virginia branch is also descended from this Ipswich branch. All other Virginians of this family are Paynes.
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