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The Templar admission ceremony: secret or not?

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" The eighty-eight charges against the Templars which were used as the basis of interrogations in the proceedings against the Templars ...

The population of the Holy Land during the Crusading period

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It is often thought that the crusaders in the different crusader states in the Holy Land were a tiny Christian elite ruling over predominant...

October 13, 1307 - the Templars' Demise Remembered and Retold

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On Friday 13 October 1307 King Philip IV of France (Philippe le Bel) had all Templars in his kingdom arrested on secret orders dated 14 Sep...

The Templars' arabization - inspiring fantasy for today?

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" In medieval times, European Christians had some access to information about real Muslim practices, but instead chose to believe in th...

Bernard de Clairvaux - the Cistercian promotor of the Templars

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The paths of the Cistercians and embryonic Templars crossed in the person of Bernard de Clairvaux. Bernard was the most famous churchman of ...

Crusaders and Mongols - friends or foes?

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In popular Templar literature from time to time publications suggest that there were friendly relationships between the Mongols and the Crus...

Godfrey de Bouillon - first ruler of Crusader Jerusalem

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Godfrey de Bouillon (French: Geoffrey, Godefroy, Dutch: Godfried, German: Gottfried, Latin: Godefridus Bullionensis; 18 September 1060 – 18 ...
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The Templar navy - the later years

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It is probably no coincidence that the Templars developed their own fleet shortly after the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204), breaking the Italian...

The Templar Order - not a monolithic entity

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" The Templar Order was not the monolithic entity which the dearth of internal documents -due to time, neglect, and the violence of its...