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Contemporary views on Templar wealth

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" Despite their extensive possessions, the Templars and Hospitallers were always claiming to be poverty-stricken. They sent out alms...

Templar spirituality illustrated in Montsaunès Chapel, France?

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The Knights Templar built a commandery at Montsaunès in 1146. The Chapel, completed in 1180 and now the only remaining trace of the comma...

Contemporary criticism of the Knights Templar

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" Criticism arose which tended to fluctuate with events. During a crusade, while crusaders wrote home with accounts of the military...

The Crusades: not anti-Muslim but to stop internal Christian violence?

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" A key area where historians focus their attention on the crusades is at the origin of the religious conflict between Islam and Ch...

Jaques de Molay 1314-2014 - Paris Event March 2014, France

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Pictures of the 2014 Jacques de Molay Event in Paris, presented by ordo-balliolensis.eu   source

The origin of The Knights Templar through early 12th century eyes

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" Few scholars have approached the Knights Templar from the beginning, examining their creation in terms of where the order origina...

Knights Templar investiture, The Netherlands, September 2011

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source (© antoine janssen) Information on present day Knights Templar in The Netherlands are scarce. This web-entry reports on a Knigh...

Muslim-Christian relations during the 3rd Crusade

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" The Second Crusade (1145-49) had put a great deal of the Holy Land under European rule, but Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, ...

The Crusades, a solution to violence in Christianity

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" The crusades were originally meant to redeem Europe from its violent nature, not to extend that violence. In this way, the crusades ...