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Clairvaux Abbey, major site for Cistercians and Knights Templar - 900th anniversary

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The Cistercian Abbey of Clairvaux was the home of Saint Bernard of Crairvaux, founder of this Cistercian Abbey and spiritual supporter of th...

Modern Knights Templar in Côte d’Or Region, NE France

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More than eight hundred years after the execution of Jacques de Molay (Last Master of the Knights Templar), the Templars leave the shadow...

Knights Templar and Switzerland

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The current Knights Templar Headquarters of the OSMTH branch are in Geneva.  This country befits and holds similar many of the most common...
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Contemporary criticism on Templar fighting

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" There were many other complaints against the military orders before 1300. Perhaps the most significant were the divided opinions ov...

Contemporary views on Templar privileges

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" But the Templars and the Hospitallers caused particular annoyance because their houses were so widely scattered. Their legal pr...

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...