Contents.History The name Baphomet appeared in July 1098 in a letter by the crusader Anselm of Ribemont:Sequenti die aurora apparente, altis vocibus Baphometh invocaverunt; et nos Deum nostrum in cordibus nostris deprecantes, impetum facientes in eos, de muris civitatis omnes expulimus.As the next day dawned, they called loudly upon Baphometh; and we prayed silently in our hearts to God, then we attacked and forced all of them outside the city walls.A chronicler of the, called the mosques Bafumarias. The name Bafometz later appeared around 1195 in the poems 'Senhors, per los nostres peccatz' by the troubadour Gavaudan. Around 1250 a poem bewailing the defeat of the by refers to Bafomet. De Bafomet is also the title of one of four surviving chapters of an Occitan translation of 's earliest known work, the Libre de la doctrina pueril.