Robert the Burgundian, lord of Craon and Sablé

Robert the Burgundian, lord of Craon and Sablé

lord of Craon and Sablé

Sablé-sur-Sarthe (47.8505, -0.3292)

1100-1129

Robert the Burgundian became the second master of the Order of the Templars. He was identified in an 1127 charter of Count Fulk V of Anjou as "miles sancti Stephani Ierusalem", generally interpreted to mean that he had already traveled to Jerusalem and entered into the service of an eastern church.

J. Chartrou, L'Anjou de 1109 à 1151 (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1928), pp. 376-376.

W. Scott Jessee, "Crusader and Templars: Robert the Burgundian Lord of Craon and Sablé and Their Descendants, 1095-1192," Medieval Prosopography 30 (2015): 31-58.