Hugues de Pairaud (also Perraud, Peraudo, Peraut or Desperaut) was one of the leaders of the Knights Templar.
He and Geoffroi de Gonneville (the Preceptor of Aquitaine) were sentenced to life imprisonment on March 18, 1314.
[4] Pairaud was accused of taking Jean de Cugy "behind an altar and kissing him on the base of the spine and the navel."
De Cugy also claimed that Pairaud had threatened him with life imprisonment if he did not deny Christ and spit on a cross, and that Pairaud had told him that it was permissible for brothers to have sexual intercourse with other brothers (sodomy).
[5] The persecution of the Templars (with Pairaud and Gonneville as supporting characters) is featured in Le Roi de fer, the 1955 first installment of Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a series of historical novels written by Maurice Druon between 1955 and 1977.