On his website www.tempelieren.nl (in Dutch) the late Dr Ben Brus embarks on a painstaking journey to identify sites of former settlements of the Knights Templar in The Netherlands. The first version of the website was published in 2003, the 13th and last edition in January 2012.
At present the website of Dr Brus identifies 120 certain, probable and possible sites where, until destruction of the order in 1317, Knights Templar may have lived and worked, mainly in agricultural enterprises. Such sites were identified on the basis of a combination of research on geographic toponyms, archaeological field data and old documents kept in archives. Dr Brus concludes that in about one third of these sites, former presence of Knights Templar is certain or at least probable. On about 20 locations, presence is improbable. About half of the sites listed still has to be investigated.
The certain and probable sites identified by Dr Brus are presented on the map published here, which is still a work in progress. The locations are sometimes exact (a still existing builing with a simiular function or a recognizable site) but more often an approximation based on the information such as geographic descriptions available and toponyms. The text at each location indicated (in Dutch) is a quote from the website of Dr Brus.
This map is original work by TemplarsNow. Obviously the map must be seen as a by-product of the important work of Dr Brus on Templar history in The Netherland which is acknowledged gratefully. TemplarsNow did nothing more than putting Dr Brus' data on a Google Map in combination with researching additional information and adding the results thereof on the map or in seperate articles on this blog. TemplarsNow is grateful to the Brus family for granting permission to republish the information.
Source: Sporen van de Tempelieren in Nederland - http://www.tempelieren.nl - © Ben Brus 2003-2012
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