Esquieu de Floyran
French prior
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Esquieu de Floyran (Floyrac or Foyrac) was a prior of Montfaucon in the Abbey of Saint Martial in Limoges.[1]
Native from Béziers, he spoke falsely and disloyally against the order of the Temple,[2] and so became a traitor with Guillaume Robert, Bernard Pelet and Gérard de Boyzol.[3] He then was imprisoned.[4]
In 1308 he wrote a letter to the king of Aragon James II reminding him that when he visited him in Lerida in early 1305 he had given information about the order.[5] Ponsard de Gizy, commanderie de Payns, mentioned him on 27 November 1309 as one of the instigators of the Trials of the Knights Templar.[6]