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Did Knights Templar wear beards?

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Many popular pictures show Knights Templar clean shaven. Is this correct?

The objective of the 1st Crusade - the changing Crusaders point of view

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" Crusaders in the East were for the time militia (to the Byzantine Emperor, TN) who were there to serve a purpose. The question of res...

The Paris Chapter of 1147 - France, Rome, and the Temple Under One Roof

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Every five years, the general chapter of the Order of the Temple convened to debate political questions, decide acts binding upon the whole ...

What Triggered the Crusades - the Church's Point of View

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In March 1095, the devastation incurred by the onstorming Seljuk Turks in the Byzantine territories forced Emperor Alexius I to ask Pope Urb...

The Knights Templar - probably Canons at first

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In his famous book The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple Malcom Barber reconstructs in detail the birth of the Order. H...

Templars and wine making in Occitania

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When in the 12th to 14th centuries Knights Templar returned from their Crusade, they settled also on the territory of Banyuls and Collioure,...

The Knights Templar Commandery at Arville, France

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This video, hosted by a very enthousiastic Frenchman, provides a nice introduction to the well preserved Knights Templar Commandery at Arvil...

Map of medieval monasteries in the Netherlands published

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In 2019 the Vrije Universiteit at Amsterdam, the Netherlands, published The Map of Monasteries . This map shows the monasteries of all orde...

"The Templars in Bretagne (France) during the Middle Ages"

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The Templars established themselves in the duchy of Brittany in the second quarter of the twelfth century, perhaps as early as 1128, duri...