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Templar Presence in Switzerland - fact or fiction

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The presence of the Knights Templar in what is now Switzerland was never extensive, but it is historically attested. What are the facts?

Assassins and Templars - Faith, Fear and Myth Revisited

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Steve Tibble’s Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood revisits two of the most mysterious movements of the medieval world: the ...

The Flight of the Templar Master of Lombardy (1308) - blow to Papal Credibility

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The general perception is that on 13 October 1307, all Knights Templar in France were arrested. This is not accurate. At some places in Fran...

The Flemish Templars - From Commandery to Inquisition, 1307–1312

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The history of the Knights Templar in the County of Flanders, starting as early as 1127, is marked by establishment, socio-political entangl...

Bernard's conversion - a family matter of spiritual and material importance

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When the young squire Bernard de Fontaine, the later Cistercian abbot Bernard de Clairvaux, entered monastic life at Citeaux, he was not alo...

The Fall of Ruad (Arwad) Island on 29 September 1302: The Last Templar Bridgehead Lost

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By 1302 the Crusader enterprise in the Levant had reached its terminal phase. The Fall of Ruad (Arwad) on 29 September 1302 represented not ...

Crusading Before the Crusades - Rewriting Medieval History

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For over a century, historians have pointed to Pope Urban II's dramatic call at Clermont in 1095 as the moment when crusading was born, ...

From Novice to Abbot: Bernard de Clairvaux’s Formative Years at Cîteaux

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Bernard de Clairvaux underwent his formative monastic training at Cîteaux under Abbot Stephen Harding between 1112 (the year of him entering...

Noble Seals: Cistercian and Templar Devotion Through Heraldic Imagery

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Medieval nobility in southern France adopted religious symbolism in their personal seals. How did two prominent families, who embraced diffe...