what do u kno about the Knights Templar?

Question

and um anyone kno were i can get the tabard??? cant find one........the helll lol

Answer 1

Following the victory of the First Crusade a group of knights, led by Hugues de Payens, offered themselves to the Patriarch of Jerusalem as a military force.


This proposed military force had the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims who were en route to the Holy Land In the year 1118 AD King Baldwin II granted the Templars quarters on the Temple Mount.


For the first nine years of their existence, the order consisted of nine knights. Speculations of treasure hunting aside, one of the reasons for the limited number of members may have been the reluctance to take Templar vows. Chastity, poverty and obedience were hardly a lifestyle greatly sought after.


In the year 1127 the Cistercian abbot, Bernard of Clairvaux, wrote a rule of order for the Templars that was based on his own Cistercian order's rule of conduct. Additionally, Bernard did a great deal to promote the Templars.


Perhaps Bernard's greatest contribution to the order was a letter that he wrote to Hugues de Payens, entitled De laude novae militae (In praise of the new knighthood.)


This letter swept throughout Christendom with the result being that many men, of noble birth, joined the ranks of the Templar Order. Those who were unable to join often gifted the Templars with land and other valuables.


While it is true that the Templars were not permitted, by their rule, to own much of anything personally, there was no such restriction on the order as a whole. As such the gifts of land were accepted and put to immediate use by the order.


From humble beginnings of poverty in 1118, when the order relied on alms from traveling pilgrims, the Order quickly grew to have the backing of the Holy See and the collective European monarchies.


In the process, the order became wealthy. Aside form the gifts showered upon them, they were experts in commerce and free from the taxation and tithes imposed on other orders.


However, in less than two centuries, the Templars would meet their demise perhaps because of their wealth or fear of their seemingly limitless powers. It is generally agreed that Philip IV was envious of the Templar's wealth and sought to secure it for himself.


Regardless of the motivation, the order was taken down at the hands of the Pope and the King of France in 1307.


On October 13, 1307 Philip had the Templars arrested on grounds of heresy; since this was the only charge that would allow the seizing of their money and assets.


The Templars were tortured and confessions were given. These confessions included:


Trampling and spitting on the cross
Homosexuality and Sodomy
Worshipping of an idol named Baphomet
Philip was successful in ridding the Templars of their power and wealth and urged all fellow Christian leaders to do the same thing.


On March 19th, 1314 the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake.


De Molay is said to have cursed King Philip and Pope Clement as he burned, asking both men to join him in death within a year.


Whether the story is an apocryphal legend or a matter of historical fact depends largely on one's point of view.


However, Pope Clement V died only one month later and Philip IV seven months after that.

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Answer 2

The Knights Templar, the real ones, defended the holy places in the Holy Land during medieval times. They were monks and knights. They were especially associated with the temple in Jerusalem, hence Templars. Their surcoat was white with a red cross (the most well recognized crusader symbol). The cross was either on the heart or the chest.

They became, despite their vows of poverty very rich as devout nobles gave grants of huge amounts of land to them. One pope even declared they were under no authority except that of the pope.

That power and their treasury led to their downfall. They were brutally suppressed.

They are, despite many peoples beliefs, in no way connected to the Holy Grail, that only came into popular legend after their destruction. They are not the forerunners of the masons and they are in no way connected to the Priory of Sion, that only came into existence in the 1950's.

Answer 3

an entire replica of each and every of the non secular scriputures that the Romans tried to spoil with the intention to outline christianity to their variety. They definately did not come across a lineage map to the decendents of Jesus and Myriam de Magdalane. reason: There might want to be over 3000 kin of Jesus assuming an uncomplicated of two little ones in step with kinfolk and a era cycle of 25 years by technique of the 365 days three hundred ad. by technique of the 1300's, one hundred's of thousands of Jesus' kin might want to exist. also, i have self assurance that the Knights templar found relics which includes the shroud of turin (Jesus sindon used to heal his wounds after crucifixion). What the Order of the Knights templar discovered replaced into the actuality, and Rome paid them for his or her silence, and then plotted their extinction in the back of their backs.

Answer 4

In lieu of pasting a long article, which does not provide you a synopsis, here is one...

1) They started as an arm of the Church, but
2) Became so successfull, that they were used as a banking system and security firm to accompany transports
3) In their time, little boys saw them as we saw James Bond in 1965: Their horses were reinforced for fighting. They were battle trained. They wore a for the time expensive white dress with a glaring red cross.
4) Their fight training probably involved a teaching to shut off emotions when necessary.
5) After persecution by the church they hid in scotland, which did not participate strongly with the Inquisition, and they merged into the stone mason lodges, elaborating a series of complex safety rituals for their protection, later transmitted to the Freemasons and also the LDS church.
The "Jeddai Knights" of the Star wars movies are closedly modelled on the Templars, even including the passion suppression edicts, which was on posters in the next to last star wars movie.

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Answer 5

just type "The History of the Knights Templar" into a search engine and there's loads of things there about them!

Answer 6

I think they were the knights who were suposed to protect/gaurd the holy grail/location of the holy grail.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_templar

http://www.authenticwardrobe.com/Templars/templars.html