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  2. Knights Templar - Wikipedia

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    The Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades. They were prominent in Christian finance; non-combatant members of the order, who made up as much as 90% of their members, [1] [2] managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom. [3]

  3. Military order (religious society) - Wikipedia

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    Indications of presence of military orders associated with the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Holy Land during the Crusades (in German). Reconquista of the main towns (per year) (in Spanish). Extent of the Teutonic Order in 1410. A military order (Latin: militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Crusades - Wikipedia

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    The Christian forces managed to survive until the final fall of Ruad in 1302. [186] The Holy Land would no longer be the focus of the West even though various crusades were proposed in the early years of the fourteenth century. The Knights Hospitaller would conquer Rhodes from Byzantium, making it the center of their activity for a hundred ...

  7. Kingdom of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    The vast majority of the Crusaders who established and settled the Kingdom of Jerusalem were from the Kingdom of France, as were the knights and soldiers who made up the bulk of the steady flow of reinforcements throughout the two-hundred-year span of its existence; its rulers and elite were therefore predominantly French. [4]

  8. Christian forces of the First Crusade - Wikipedia

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    Some of the renown knights who participated in the First Crusades whose affiliations are unknown include: Guy, Lord of Dampierre-en-Yvelines, who went to the Holy Land, but it is unclear whether he was a Crusader; Baldwin Chauderon, described as a rich man and a knight of great renown, and his compatriot Guy of Possesse, both killed at the ...

  9. List of principal leaders of the Crusades - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Third Crusade (1189–1192) subsection. 3.1 From Europe. 3.2 From the Crusader states. 4 Crusade of 1197. 5 Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) 6 Fifth Crusade (1217 ...