Raymond du Temple

Raymond du Temple († 1404) was a French builder.

In 1356 he was appointed controller of the work of Jean le Bouteiller , who had worked on the choir of the Notre-Dame cathedral since 1351 . From 1361 he worked at the donjon of Vincennes Castle , from 1363 at the Hôtel Saint-Paul , the then preferred royal residence in Paris, which he was to make more homely on behalf of the king.

He was the architect of King Charles V throughout his reign, from 1364 to 1380. In 1364 he worked at the Louvre , where he built a staircase in a turret that quickly became famous, from 1373 on the wall of the Vincennes Castle, the Charles V wanted to expand into a closed system. In 1375 he was the architect at the Collège de Beauvais in Paris, of which only the chapel still exists.

15 years after the end of his work as a royal architect, he stepped on behalf of Guy VI. de la Trémoille during construction work on the donjon of the Sully-sur-Loire castle . Three years later, when King Charles VI. ordered the restoration of the Petit Pont in Paris, which had been destroyed in a flood two years earlier (1393), Raymond du Temple was entrusted with the management of the work. However, its structure also sank in the floods of 1408.