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The Ordre d'Amus - Secret Precursor of the Templars or Modern Myth?

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Among the more persistent legends circulating in popular Templar literature is the claim that a secret society called the Ordre d'Amus w...

Lesser Nobility - The Hidden Backbone of the Temple

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The Knights Templar are remembered as warrior monks guarding the Holy Land, an elite brotherhood of armoured knights answering only to the P...

The Crucifix in Medieval Cistercian and Templar Practice - Popular Image and Fact

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Two powerful medieval institutions, the Cistercian monks and the Knights Templar, are both popularly associated with the crucifix, a cross b...

Beaufort Castle - A Templar and Present Day Stronghold

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High above the Litani River in southern Lebanon rises Beaufort Castle, known in Arabic as Qal'at al-Shaqif ("Castle of the High Ro...

Templar Matthew and Sultan Baibars - Blood Brothers Across the Divide

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The mid-thirteenth century Crusader states operated under sustained Mamluk ("Egyptian") military pressure, with successive Templar...

High Justice and Vanished Charters - the Fingerprints of Templars in the Netherlands?

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Across the medieval Netherlands, several tiny estates held powers very disproportionate to their size: the right to hang criminals, to levy ...

The Hidden Hydraulics of the Knights Templar

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When we picture the Knights Templar, we summon white mantles, red crosses, and distant Crusader citadels. Rarely do we imagine them stooped ...

Trade, Marriage, and Military Orders - Medieval Links between Flanders and Scotland

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Between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, Flanders and Scotland maintained a relationship built on commercial exchange, dynastic marria...

Monks, Farmers and Neighbours - Everyday Life at a Templar House

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The Knights Templar have long fascinated popular imagination as secretive warrior monks guarding crusader treasures. Yet when we strip away ...