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Esquieu de Floyran (Floyrac or Foyrac) was a prior of Montfaucon in the Abbey of Saint Martial in Limoges.

Native from Béziers, he spoke falsely and disloyally against the order of the Temple, and so became a traitor with Guillaume Robert, Bernard Pelet and Gérard de Boyzol. He then was imprisoned.

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. Ponsard de Gizy, commanderie de Payns, mentioned him on 27 November 1309 as one of the detonators of the Trials of the Knights Templar.

References

1. Demurger 2008a, p. 431.
2. Nicholson, Helen; Crawford, Paul F.; Burgtorf, Jochen (23 March 2016). The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307–1314). Routledge. p. 97. ISBN 9781317036319.
3. Nicholson, Helen (23 May 2016). On the Margins of Crusading: The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World. Routledge. p. 64. ISBN 9781317085751.
4. Demurger, Alain (2008b). Los Templarios Deben Morir. Ediciones Robinbook. p. 188. ISBN 9788479279899.
5. Demurger, Alain (2009). The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay. Translated by Nevill, Antonia. Profile Books. p. 157. ISBN 9781846682247.
6. Demurger 2008a, p. 430.

Bibliography

• Demurger, Alain (2008a) . Les Templiers, une chevalerie chrétienne au Moyen Âge. Paris: Éditions du Seuil. p. 664. ISBN 978-2-7578-1122-1.

• 14th-century French people
• Priors
• People from Béziers
• Medieval Knights Templar members