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The Knights Templar, full name The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta, is a fraternal order affiliated with Freemasonry.
Benjamin Franklin Gates is an American historian, cryptographer, and treasure hunter.When Ben was young, his grandfather John told him a story about a fabled treasure hidden in America passed down from ancient times to the Knights Templar, Founding Fathers, and Freemasons.
In 1837, a Scottish Freemason, James Burnes, in attempting to revive a Scottish order of "Knights Templar", expanded the masonic link to Bannockburn. He introduced the Knights Templar as the bearers on Freemasonry to Scotland, and had the Templars play a crucial part in the battle.
Sky History’s Lost Relics of the Knights Templar is a five-part series that follows prolific treasure hunters Hamilton White and Carl Cookson as they discover their rarest collection yet – a ...
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici and French: Pauvres Chevaliers du Christ et du Temple de Salomon) are also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, and mainly the Knights Templar (French: Les Chevaliers Templiers), or simply the Templars (French: Les Templiers).
The Knights Templar were an elite fighting force of their day, highly trained, well-equipped, and highly motivated; one of the tenets of their religious order was that they were forbidden from retreating in battle, unless outnumbered three to one, and even then only by order of their commander, or if the Templar flag went down.
Robinson's first work, Born in Blood, published in 1990, [nb 1] traced the connections of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons. The author says that it is considered an important work, but its initial reception was very poor: he says in the preface to A Pilgrim's Path that "not even one newspaper in the United States saw fit to review a book that had the word Freemasonry in the title."
Andrew Sinclair, a leading proponent of Freemasonry's descent from the Knights Templar, hailed it as a great mediaeval treasure, comparable with the Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral. [43] His claim arises from what opponents describe as an optimistic reading of radiocarbon dating, and creative interpretation of the panels.