What are templars?

Question

Is it true that templars are the first group of people founding the first bank system in Europe? And also the people started the Baroc style in buildings.

Answer 1

i have no idea what you are talking about so am going to pretend that am one

Answer 2

The Templars were one of the military religious orders founded in the time of the Crusades. Unfortunately they were attacked by the French King Phillipe le bel and ceased to exist after that. You often get "Temple" in the names of villages where the land at one time belonged to the order. Also you find a number of Templar churches which are round sometimes, something to do with a church in Jerusalem. The earliest bankers in Europe were probably the Syrians in the very early middle ages but afterwards the Jews. This was because unlike Christians they didn't object to lending money at interest.

Answer 3

The knights templar noted for their castles. Literally the poor knights of the temple. Vowed to defend the christian kingdom.

They indeed were the keepers of the royal treasure in France, leading eventually to banking.

Their downfall came as a result of a royal commission and a papal commission.

Philip the Fair made a preliminary inquiry, and, on the strength of so-called revelations of a few unworthy and degraded members, secret orders were sent throughout France to arrest all the Templars on the same day (13 October, 1307), and to submit them to a most rigorous examination. The king did this, it was made to appear, at the request of the ecclesiastical inquisitors, but in reality without their co-operation.
The second phase of the process was the papal inquiry, which was not restricted to France, but extended to all the Christian countries of Europe, and even to the Orient. In most of the other countries -- Portugal, Spain, Germany, Cyprus -- the Templars were found innocent; in Italy, except for a few districts, the decision was the same. But in France the episcopal inquisitions, resuming their activities, took the facts as established at the trial, and confined themselves to reconciling the repentant guilty members, imposing various canonical penances extending even to perpetual imprisonment

Answer 4

Templar - Knights Templar was a medieval Christian military order and was prominent during the Crusades. They were founded in the early 12th century by Hughes de Paynes with eight of his relatives (who were knights) and disbanded in the early 14th century by Pope Clement V after being pressured to do so from King Phillip IV. Many of the Knights were executed, those that could fled to Scotland were it was safe because of the King of Scots...Robert the Bruce.

There original purpose was to protect pilgrims in the 'Holy Land'.

Answer 5

they were a seccular order of knights. That means they were clerics that fought in the crusades They were mostly a bunch of religious fanatics that were responsable for some of the greatest attrocities during the middle ages. They did develop a system of international money transfer(in your homeland someone would give money to the templar order and the templars in Jerusalem would pay you) However they can't be credited with starting banking as it goes back a lot further. They became very wealthy and powerfull and retired to malta after the crusades. In the 15th century however the pope needed money so he promptly had their order abolished and had all the Templars massacred in order to confiscate their wealth.

Answer 6

When members joined the Order, they often donated large amounts of cash or property, since all had to take oaths of poverty. Combined with massive grants from the Pope, the Order's financial power was assured from the beginning. Since the Templars kept cash in all their chapter houses and temples, it was natural that in 1135 the Order started lending money to Spanish pilgrims who wanted to travel to the Holy Land.

By 1150, the Order's original mission of guarding pilgrims had changed into a mission of guarding their valuables through an innovative way of issuing letters of credit, an early precursor of modern banking. Pilgrims would visit a Templar house in their home country, depositing their deeds and valuables. The Templars would then give them an encrypted letter which would describe their holdings. While traveling, the pilgrims could present the letter to other Templars along the way, to "withdraw" funds from their account. This kept the pilgrims safe since they were not carrying valuables, and further increased the power of the Templars.

The Knights' involvement in banking grew over time into a new basis for money, as Templars became increasingly involved in banking activities. One indication of their powerful political connections is that the Templars' involvement in usury did not lead to more controversy within the Order and the church at large. Officially the idea of lending money in return for interest was forbidden by the church, but the Order sidestepped this with clever loopholes, such as a stipulation that the Templars retained the rights to the production of mortgaged property. Or as one Templar researcher put it, "Since they weren't allowed to charge interest, they charged rent instead."

Answer 7

Another explanation of templars is a group of loyal knights,
during the middle ages, who fought as crusaders in the holy
war against the turkish moslems in Jerusalem. They were then popularly known as the 'Knights Templars' whose primary purpose was to guard Jesus Christ's holy grail from outsiders!

Answer 8

Yes, they started first related bank system in Europe/Minor Asia.

No. Baroc style began in XVI and later in XVII and Templars are between 1118 (Perhaps 100 before) e 1314.

Templars are one of first militars arms from Catholic Church. They are represented by religious tha protect peregrin routes within MiddleEast. They had a lot of contact within Muslim world and they build a lot of commercial relations with them. Pay attention that they share knowledge and did alliances without boundries within somekind of grey layer of power. Of course they also get a lot of respect due their belic capacity.

Their bank character, control of trade routes and later consequent influence help to set up one of strongest center of power within christian world.

Answer 9

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici), popularly known as the Knights Templar, was one of the most famous of the Christian military orders. It existed for about two centuries in the Middle Ages, created in the aftermath of the First Crusade of 1096 to ensure the safety of the large numbers of European pilgrims who flowed toward Jerusalem after its conquest.

The Templars were an unusual order in that they were both monks and soldiers, making them in effect some of the earliest "warrior monks" in the Western world. Members of the Order played a key part in many battles of the Crusades, and the Order's infrastructure innovated many financial techniques that could be considered the foundation of modern banking. The Order grew in membership and power throughout Europe, until it ran afoul of King Philip IV of France (Philip the Fair), who caused many of the order's members in France to be tortured into confessions and burned at the stake. Under influence from King Philip, Pope Clement V then forcibly disbanded the order in 1314.

Answer 10

You won't get a full and quantifiable explanation here, and I can't provide you with one because I would get in so much trouble for divulging information that I shouldn't be privy to.

Suffice to say, the Church would like to vilify the Templar's by means of subterfuge, and the individuals who guard the secrets are still doing a sterling job...

Answer 11

they were a religous group of warrior knights who took holy orders, they were the vangaurd in the first and second crusades ,they were known as the por fellow soldiers of christ and the temple of soloman, until the arrest of the whole order on october 13 1307 ( which is why friday 13 is consisdered unlicky) the grand master, jaques de molay was burnt along with many other members of the orders, after this it was disbanded, hope that helps