Templar locations in France pinpointed

TemplarsNow runs a project which pinpoints the geographical location of Templar sites in France. TemplarsNow has earlier done a similar job for The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. 

On the website templiers.net a host of templar sites in France and their history is described in great detail. The same is true for the Project Beauceant website on templiers.org. Regrettably, these websites differ in detail, number and location of commanderies presented. Furthermore, locating the indicated sites on modern maps is hardly possible in the first case and rather difficult in the second.

The French maps made by TemplarsNow are being constructed by combining the information of both websites mentioned above and plotting it on modern Google-satellite maps, one per Department. In the process, the geographical location of each site is checked on the Cassini-map and other sources on the internet. Primary source is the templiers.net website. Additional information is used from the templiers.org website and from other sources on the internet. The site description on the maps uses snippits of text (for now in French) and photographs, mainly from the templiers.net website. If other information is presented, the sources are indicated. The illustration above presents a part of the resulting map for the Creuse Department (23). All completed maps will be summed up on the page on France.

On the maps four types of Templar sites are distinguished:

1. major actual Templar site which at present holds multiple important buildings and/or ruins
2. actual Templar site which at present holds one or a small number of buildings and/or ruins
3. historical Templar site where as yet no remains are found but of which the former presence can be inferred from toponymes etc
4. historical Templar site which is mentioned in the sources but whereof no traces whatsoever in the field are known today

The symbols used for each category are:

category 1

category 2

category 3

category 4

Obviously these new TemplarNow maps could not be made without the information provided by the websites templiers.net and templiers.org and additional sources. Therefore these maps should only be seen as the elaborated and augmented representation of the great work of others.

This blog is original work of TemplarsNow. The illustration is a screenshot from a part of the Google map on the Creuse Department made by TemplarsNow. Fair Use intended.

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