What is the Knights Templar?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar
http://www.templarhistory.com/
It is a very old organization, which existed for approximately two centuries in the Middle Ages. Some say the Knights Templar were replaced by the Free Masons. There are some very good programs on cable which try and depict the Knights Templar and one on them and the Free Masons. Mind you there are strictly men's orgs. there were no women allowed. The Free Masons still exist and the Knights Templar do not. The movie national treasure (I think I got that name right) deals with a treasure that was hidden by the Free Masons.

Answer 2

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici), popularly known as the Knights Templar or the Order of the Temple, were among the most famous of the Christian military orders.[2] The organization, which existed for approximately two centuries in the Middle Ages, was 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.

Officially endorsed by the church in 1129, the Order became a favored charity across Europe and grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights, easily recognisable in their white mantle with a distinct red cross, made some of the best equipped, trained, and disciplined fighting units of the Crusades.[3] Non-warrior members of the Order managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom, innovating many financial techniques that were an early form of banking,[4] and building numerous fortifications across Europe and the Holy Land.

The Templars' success was tied closely to the success of the Crusades. When the Holy Land was lost and the Templars suffered crushing defeats, support for the Order's existence faded. Rumors about the Templars' secret initiation ceremony created mistrust, and King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, began pressuring Pope Clement V to take action. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip had many of the Order's members in France arrested, tortured into "confessions", and burned at the stake.[5] In 1312, Pope Clement, under continuing pressure from King Philip, forcibly disbanded the entire Order. The sudden disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends, which have kept the name "Templar" alive in modern fiction.

Answer 3

Who were the Knights Templar?
It would take forever to go there.
Start with your own resourses, check the history.
These guys were radical!!

Answer 4

They were the men who sworn to protect the Holy Grail, which in the movie "The Da Vinci Code" was Mary Magdalene

Answer 5

It was an order of the Catholic Church, until they executed them in 1307. They were created to protect pilgrims visiting the Holy Lands after the Crusades opened them up. The Catholic Church gave them a great deal of wealth and power, until they suddenly turned against them violently.

Answer 6

Defenders of the holy grail
Knights that provided safe passage through the middle east to Jeruselem

Answer 7

I think they started banking. Their first branches were called Holy Grail Banking and Trust.

Answer 8

You may want to do a Yahoo search for a better answer to that, but they are a branch of sort with the Massons I believe.

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

A medival terrorist organization.