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The image of a warrior monk When we picture a Knight Templar, a powerful image comes to mind:…

The birth of an icon: more than just a white mantle Picture a Knight Templar. The image that…

The crimson beacon on a field of white Picture it: a line of knights on the dusty plains…

The enduring image of the warrior monk Close your eyes and picture a Knight Templar. What do you…

Unveiling the thread of history in the Templar uniform Picture a Knight Templar. An image immediately springs to…

The Templar tunic explained: how the white surcoat and red cross evolved from crusade armor to costume – its design, colors, and real meaning.

Pope Clement V (1264-1314): the pope who bowed to King Philip, suppressed the Knights Templar in 1312, and sealed the Order’s fate.

As the Templars were free of all authority save for that of the Papal Throne, the only way Philip could lawfully seize Templar assets was to accuse them of magic and heresy, which he did through his right hand man, Guillaume de Nogart, who has King Philip’s chancellor. An interesting side note to Guillaume is that the lawyer’s parents had been burned at the stake as Albigensian heretics.

He had four brothers and three sisters, the first of which died at a young age. Of the remainder; Henry was named heir to the English throne, Richard was to succeed his mother’s Aquitaine and Geoffrey was to inherit Brittany. John was the poorest to fair out, receiving nothing from his father. It is this action that gave him the name John Lackland.

The Knights Templar cross, the cross pattée, explained: its shape, meaning, and how it differs from the Jerusalem and Maltese crosses.

In the annals of history, few orders have captured the imagination quite like the Knights Templar. From their…

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