To corroborate this hypothesis, there are a few documents very interesting, coming from a few files of the Knights Templar, who were found in the Principality of Seborga, a tiny country of about 14 Kms. square, situated in the Northwest of Italy, in the region of Liguria, and where it relates directly to Bernardo de Claraval with the foundation of the Templar order. According to those documents, Bernardo de Claraval, in the year 1113, would have founded a monastery in Seborga, with the purpose of preserving a great secret, which is not specified in its interior. Bernardo left as guardians of the secret monks Gondemar and Rossal, two friars who belonged to the clan of the Fontaine, and who had entered with the Cistercian order. Subsequently, in the year 1117, Bernardo de Claraval, returns to the monastery in Seborga and releases their votes two friars, while a new destination you entrusted to them: would travel to the Holy Land, in the company of seven Knights. The names of these knights were:-Andre de Montbard (uncle of Bernardo de Claraval). -The count Hugo I de Champana (who donated the lands of Clairvaux).
-Hugo of Payens (who would become the first master of the order). -Payen de Montdidier. -Geoffroi de Saint – Omer. -Archambaud de Saint – Amand – Geoffroi Bisot as can be seen, most of the names that appear in these documents, match the names cited in the documents which reference the group that went to Jerusalem and founded the Knights Templar in 1118. Coincidence? But these would not be unique and strange coincidences that show an implication of Bernardo de Claraval with the order of the Temple and its secrets. Jobs to look for other foreign relations or implications between Bernardo and the order of the Temple, could not ignore the attitude of King Baudouin to the nine Knights of the Temple.