Crusading around 1150 - a "worldwide" coordinated effort
4 New maps of Templar sites in Poitou-Charantes, France
Cofraternities and the christianization of combat in the Medieval West
"A considerable number of associations of armed men existed during the central and high Middle Ages, fulfilling diverse purposes, such as the defense of churches or of Christian territory and the fight against heresy, as well as preserving the peace. Founded on a tradition of brotherhood taken from the Gospels, these militias had varying degrees of organization.What is known about them?
Payen de Montdidier - co-founder of the Knights Templar
Payen (Paganus, Païen) de Montdidier was one of the founding members of the Knights Templar. He is one of the more obscure members of whom little is known. A quick scan in public sources showed that reliable data on Payen himself are very scarce indeed. At the same time, there is more than enough information to show the importance of his family and the contribution he made to the Templars. What are the facts?
The rise of the Papacy in the 12th and 13th century
Geoffrey de Saint-Omer - co-founder of the Templar Order
7 New Google maps of French Templar sites added
Templar liturgy and pastoral work in the Middle Ages
"Templar assets, including liturgical books, instruments and garments, but also all other writings which the Templars had possessed or produced, dispersed widely and were absorbed into the treasuries and sacristies of laymen and ecclesiastics after the disintegration of the Order around 1312. Only few religious books once pertaining to the Order have as yet been discovered. They shed light on the question whether or not the Templars used a uniform liturgy and what they used it for. (...)
Templar provincial chapters in medieval times
Where was the first Templar Church on Temple Mount?
Nine Templar founders - fact or fiction?
Underground cisterns at Temple Mount, Jerusalem
Climate in the Levant during Crusader times
The Templar Rule and Easter
The Templar missal of Modena
Origin, layout and access of the Templar stables under Temple Mount, Jerusalem
710 years after the Templar demise on March 18, 1314
How were the medieval Cistercians different?
Details of the Templar compound on Temple Mount Jerusalem
The Templars' religious presence in Medieval Europe
The Latin Liturgy of Jerusalem: a mixture of old and new, Occidental and Oriental
"The 12th century liturgy of Jerusalem was immensely important in the newly created socio-cultural and sacral landscape. Unique rites were established and formed part of a large project aimed at transforming the post-Byzantine Muslim city of Jerusalem into the Latin capital of their Kingdom and a spiritual centre of the Christian world. How was this accomplished?
The Templar compound on Temple Mount Jerusalem
"Shortly after the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, the Al-Aqsa mosque became the residence of the Frankish kings of Jerusalem. But the kings were not able to maintain the building in the condition in which they had found it." Perhaps that is what inspired king Baldwin II to lend the site to the young Templar Order. A reconstruction.
Jerusalem - Templar purpose and alibi in Bernard's "De laude novae militiae"
Historiography of the Knights Templar - fact and fiction
Natural setbacks for crusaders: plagues, droughts and earthquakes
Administration in the early Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem