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Follow the Templar on Facebook. Follow the Templar on Twitter My Tweets. Evidence the Knights Templar got to America! The Templar Knight community — thanks for following! Powered by WordPress. No matter. The original Knights Templar—shorthand for the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem—were founded to protect Christian pilgrims on the roads of Palestine following the First Crusade; the group was named for its original headquarters on the Temple Mount.
In their day, though, the Templar organization was rich. It owned property stretching from Britain to Syria, profits from which were used to fund military expeditions in the Holy Land and charitable deeds across the West.
The order boasted considerable financial acumen, providing international banking and credit-transfer services. It counted the pope and kings of France among its clients. Templar brothers across Europe were arrested, charged with crimes including sodomy, blasphemy and worshiping false idols; they were imprisoned, tortured and forced to make false confessions. In March a church council formally abolished the order. Its property was confiscated and its members stripped of their rank.
In the last Master, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake in Paris. That grisly demise has lent the Templars lasting notoriety and a thick shrouding of myth. The Templars have also been widely revived and imitated for purposes both benign and sinister since at least , when the Scottish Freemason Andrew Michael Ramsey wrote a pseudo-history of Masonry that claimed ties to the medieval Templars.
Today Templar revivalism remains strong. Templar iconography is popular with European neo-fascists: The Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik claimed to be a Templar, and Knights Templar International is an online network that connects far-right activists, particularly in Britain.
In Mexico, a drug cartel called Los Caballeros Templarios has borrowed from Templar symbolism to create its own brand and code of honor.
Templar imitation is enduringly popular but seldom historically literate. Yet the Templars I meet in Nashville are mostly fascinated by the history, at times exhaustingly so. They have recently self-published a long, painstakingly footnoted book about Templarism over the centuries. Their internal literature liberally cites medieval texts such as those of St. For the men and women I encounter, being a 21st-century Templar is about far more than medieval cosplay with a donation cup: It is participation in a living metaphor for evangelical Christian advocacy, financial expertise, internationalism and a militaristic ethos of duty and service to the cause.
SMOTJ was founded in the s under the umbrella of an older, international network of Templar revivalists called Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani, which was itself formally recognized by Napoleon Bonaparte in They are attached to 33 priories from Arizona to Wisconsin, and many stay in touch via a closed-membership smartphone app.
To try to combat confusion, SMOTJ has a legal officer called the Grand Avocat who works on registering trademarks to guard its brand identity. A faltering war in the middle east. A global financial network unaccountable to any government. A sinister plot founded on a web of lies. This strategic Holy Land port came under Western control during the First Crusade—but changed hands several times after.
In it was the last Christian-held fortress in the Holy Land when it fell to the Mamluks—one of the most devastating events in Templar, and Western, The medieval crusading period threw up literally dozens of military orders—knights sworn to lead religious lives as well as fighting the enemies of Christ.
We never hear about the mysteries of the Hospitallers. Or the secret bloodline of Jesus guarded by the Teutonic Order. The Knights Templar were revered throughout medieval Europe as the fiercest, wealthiest and most powerful military order of the era.
So how were they obliterated with such devastating swiftness? Lies, spies and torture—lots of torture—masterminded by a power-hungry, money-mad Others claim that the ancient Sumerians, who Many were killed while crossing through Muslim-controlled territory during their journey. Around , How often do we get a nitty-gritty view into the daily life of a medieval knight—one based on fact and not misty mythology?
The Templars, founded in as a band of poor, pious knights, have been romantically reimagined in art, literature, film and folklore for centuries. Around , a French knight named Hugues de Payens founded a military order devoted to protecting these pilgrims, calling it the Poor It was also a live crusading theatre in the so-called Reconquista, in which Christian kings battled against Islamic emirs known as Moors, who occupied southern Spain. From the The Knights of Labor was founded as a secret society of tailors in Philadelphia in It grew in size and prominence in the early days of the American labor movement from the mid- to lates and played a key role in the Great Railroad Strike of Uriah Stevens, Knights Live TV.
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