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Templar importance in Spain in the 1130s preceeds their Oriental role

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" Though the nature of Templar activities during the 1120's and 1130's remains obscure, they were clearly successful, despite t...

Templars and Assassins: a matter of mutual hatred

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" The Assassins were a radical group of Shi'ite Muslims who practiced terrorism against their enemies. If a leader, usually Muslim,...

March 18, 1314 - the final stage of the Temple

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" It was the final act of the Templar Trial which would set the stage for the legends that the Templars have survived to this day. On M...

The Templar Order - home and prison to knights and criminals

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  " The initial Latin Rule was public. Later translations and revisions of the Rule were not. During its first translation, in the 114...

The obscure early years of the Knights Templar

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" The first ten years of the Temple were difficult. According to a later chronicler (they were ignored by contemporary chroniclers in P...

Early Templar military tactics for protecting pilgrims and more

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The nature of the earliest Templars' duties in Palestine made them a more mobile and disciplined group than the Frankish military forces...

The Arabization of the Knights Templar during the Crusades, 1119-1314

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The military orders, especially the first, the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon (Knights Templar) played a critical role i...

The Crusades - from chaos to shared ideal in Christian Europe

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"Following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century, Christian Europe had wrestled with increasingly senseless and unc...

Crusader-Muslim Relationships during the Crusades

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ln the late eleventh century, when the first crusade arrived in the Middle East, the region was not predominantly Muslim. The population was ...