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Templar territorial organisation in the West

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The purpose of the European Templar sites was to transfer significant amounts of resources to the East. Provisions, weapons, horses, and coi...

Templar chapel architecture in France

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Chapels are today the most iconic remains of Templar buildings in France. Sometimes alone in their village or in the open countryside, the...

More Templar sites in the Allier department, Central France.

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Beauchassin Templar house, Saint Hilaire, Allier source Google Maps   On internet much information on the Knights Templar in France is ava...

New Templar site maps of Cher and Indre Departments, France

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Today the French departments Cher (18) and Indre (36) were added to the TemplarsNow maps project . The aim of this project is to present ...

Early Templars, mainly from the ranks of lower and middlinge nobility

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All donations received by the Temple added together constituted a significant value. Although the donations were extremely varied in nature...

The Templar motte at Richemont, Allier, France

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One of the less well known Templar sites of the Allier Department, France, is the "motte" at Richemont (Municipality of Bizeneu...

Saint Bernard - hating and loving Knights

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The Cistercian Order, and especially Clairvaux abbot Bernard (1091-1153), was essential in creating the Templar Order. His attitude toward...

Noble support of the early Templars: funds, hands and land

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It was from France nobles that the Templars received their earliest support in terms of donations. The beginning of a huge real estate empir...

The langue d’oïl, the mother tongue of the Knights Templar

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French lands have always had a privileged relationship with the Temple. But what tongue did the Templars speak?