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2. Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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   The current position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the medieval persecution of the Knights Templar was unjust, that nothing was inherently wrong with the order or its rule, and that Pope Clement was pressed into his actions by the magnitude of the public scandal and by the dominating influence of King Philip IV, who was Clement's relative.

3. List of Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of some members of the Knights Templar, a powerful Christian military order during the time of the Crusades. At peak, the Order had approximately 20,000 members. The Knights Templar were led by the Grand Master, originally based in Jerusalem, whose deputy was the Seneschal. Next in importance was the Marshal, who was responsible ...

4. History of the Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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   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. Not all Knights ...

5. Rothley Temple - Wikipedia

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   Rothley Preceptory was established around the year 1231; however, records show "The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon" (more commonly known as the Knights Templar) owned land at Rothley as early as the reign of King John (1199–1216). [2]

6. Military order (religious society) - Wikipedia

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   The Knights Hospitaller (2001). Riley-Smith, Jonathan. Hospitallers: The History of the Order of St John (1999). Morten, Nicholas Edward. The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land 1190-1291 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009) Forey, Alan John. The Military Orders: From the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries. *(Basingstoke: Macmillan Education ...

7. List of grand masters of the Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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   The grand master controlled the actions of the order but he was expected to act the same way as the rest of the knights. After Pope Innocent II issued the bull Omne datum optimum on behalf of the Templars in 1139, the grand master was obliged to answer only to him.

8. List of Knights Templar sites - Wikipedia

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   Castle of Merle (Khirbet el-Burj) near Tantura, 12th century to 1291 with interruption in the late 1180s; Gaza Fortress , 1149–1187; Chastel Hernault , 1150–1179; La Fève, now Merhavia, 1160s to 1187; Amman Fortress , 1166–1187; Castle of Maldoim or Adumim (Rouge Cisterne, Arabic Qal'at ad-Damm) near Khan al-Ahmar, built ca. 1170

9. List of Knights Hospitaller sites - Wikipedia

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   The Knights Hospitaller operated a wide network of properties in the Middle Ages from their successive seats in Jerusalem, Acre, Cyprus, Rhodes and eventually Malta. In the early 14th century, they received many properties and assets previously in the hands of the Knights Templar.