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Templar Tithes and Justice at Oosterhout, the Netherlands

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Oosterhout, north of Breda, the Netherlands, is hardly known as a Templar place, yet the Knights Templar held a quarter of its lordship, mos...

Pope Urban II Before Clermont - How the East Entered the Picture

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In March 1095 envoys of Emperor Alexios asked the council of Piacenza for help against the pagans. Eight months later, at Clermont, a decree...

Jacques de Molay Before He Was Master - 1265 to 1292

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For the general public Jacques de Molay is mainly known as the last Grandmaster of the Knights Templar. But there is more to the man and the...

How the Templars Ran Their Estate at Rixtel, the Netherlands

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In 1214 the count of Megen gave his estate at Rixtel, in eastern Brabant, the Netherlands, to the Knights Templar   as told in our post on L...

Friday 13 October 1307 - Esquieu de Floyran and the Informer's Reward

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On Friday 13 October 1307 royal officers arrested the Templars all over France. The man who claimed to have started it, Esquieu de Floyran ...

Power Play - The Pope, the King and the Templars 1305-1307

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Around the middle of 1305 the informer Esquieu de Floyran (also Esquin or Floyrac) told Philip IV of France that the Templars denied Christ....

Esquieu de Floyran - The Jailed Informer

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On 28 January 1308 one Esquieu de Floyran, or Esquin de Floyrac, calling himself valet of the French king, wrote proudly to King James II of...

Rumours in the South - Trigger of the Templar Arrests

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The charges of 1307 against the Templars are usually dismissed as standard slander against heretics and political enemies. Yet reports from ...

Den Tempel Vlaardingen, the Netherlands - a Templar House?

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North of Vlaardingen (Vlaardingue), beside the Bommeer, the farmstead Den Tempel stood for centuries until Rotterdam harbour sludge buried ...