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In the period 1118-1156, the Military Orders played a relatively minor role in the Holy Land. In fact, they are not well documented even in ...

The natural harbor at Apollonia Fortress in Israel never developed into a port as large as Acre, where dozens of ships would anchor in th...

Although pre-Islamic arabia is often viewed, with some justification, as somewhat of a cultural backwater, the Arabs nonetheless had extensi...

Proof seems to be missing of participation from Holland in de Crusades. This appears to be false. Until about 1300 the former county Hollan...

Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan Order, was born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181 or 1182. He died there on 3 October, 1226. M...

" This article has set out a small selection of the evidence surviving in the records of the ‘Templar’s affair’ in the British Isles...

Southern France has, long before the start of the Crusades at the end of the 11th Century, been a gateway to the Orient. 

" In an ideological sense, the growth of the military orders was fostered by a theological shift in attitude of the Church towards just...

Historians point out repeatedly analogies linking the Shia Ismaili to the Templars: both orders used initiation and were military and held t...