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Showing posts with label Tempelhof. Show all posts

The Templar Commandery at Zaamslag, the Netherlands

West of Zaamslag in Zeelandic Flanders, the Netherlands, ploughed fields still hide the Templar commandery known as the Tempelhof. Written sources name the Order here from 1200, the oldest pottery points to the twelfth century, and a survey of 2016 to 2018 found two sites with building remains and ditches. What do they tell us?