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Templar Tithes and Justice at Oosterhout, the Netherlands

Tower of the Gothic Sint Jansbasiliek at Oosterhout, North Brabant, the Netherlands
Oosterhout, north of Breda, the Netherlands, is hardly known as a Templar place, yet the Knights Templar held a quarter of its lordship, most of its tithes and the right to present its parish priest. An inquest of 1312 and an inventory of 1313 describe these rights in detail. What did Templar lordship in a Brabant village look like?