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Payen de Montdidier - co-founder of the Knights Templar

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Payen (Paganus, Païen) de Montdidier was one of the founding members of the Knights Templar. He is one of the more obscure members of whom l...

The rise of the Papacy in the 12th and 13th century

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The history of the Order of the Temple closely coincided with the development of papal power during the 12th and 13th centuries. How did the...

Geoffrey de Saint-Omer - co-founder of the Templar Order

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According to William of Tyre, Geoffrey de Saint-Omer (" Gaufrede de Sancto Aldemarlo ") was among the first knights of the militar...
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The influence of the medieval Cistercians on the early Knights Templar

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What was the extent of the influence of the Cistercians on the Templars?

7 New Google maps of French Templar sites added

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TemplarsNow is still working on its mapping project, aimed at pinpointing the geographical location of major and in many departments also mi...
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Templar liturgy and pastoral work in the Middle Ages

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" Templar assets, including liturgical books, instruments and garments, but also all other writings which the Templars had possessed or...

Templar provincial chapters in medieval times

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" Most general and regional studies of the Templars contain little comment on provincial chapters. This is hardly surprising. Although ...

Where was the first Templar Church on Temple Mount?

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In about 1120 King Baldwin II decided to lend his palace at what now is called the Al-Acsa Mosque, temporarily to the juvenil Templar Order...

Nine Templar founders - fact or fiction?

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One of the myths that the Templars told about their own beginning was that for the first nine years there were only nine knights. This is fi...