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In The Netherlands only a few researchers focus on the Knights Templar and their presence in the Low Countries. One of them was Dr Ben Brus....

" A "first crude experiment" in compulsory almsgiving, the levy of 1166 begins the history of general taxation for financing ...

Usually the Knights Templar are referred to as if it was a a coherent body. This may have been the case in their later days. But in their ...

" The military religious orders were founded to fight on behalf of their fellow Christians, in defence of pilgrims and Christian territ...

The founding of a Cistercian abbey was a comparatively cheap investment, in comparison to other monastic orders. The patrons, while seeking ...

" Through the military orders of warrior-monks, the church provided directly for the defense of the Holy Land. The most important of ...

" How many Templarts were there? This is one of those questions that people interested in the Templars often ask. But so far as we k...