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In 1189, Alan FitzWalter, the 2nd Lord High Steward of Scotland was a benefactor of the Order. In about the year 1187, William the Lion granted part of the Culter lands on the south bank of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, to the Knights Templar and between 1221 and 1236 Walter Bisset of Aboyne founded a Preceptory for the Knights Templar. In 1287 ...
Castle of Soure - received and reconstructed in March 1128, was the first castle of the Knights Templar. [ 16 ] Old town of Tomar , including the Castle, the Convent of the Order of Christ and the Church of Santa Maria do Olival [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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 ...
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.
The modern revival of Templarism in Scotland starts with Alexander Deuchar.The records of one of Scottish Freemasonry's most prestigious lodges, the St Mary's Chapel Lodge of Edinburgh, describe the visit of a "...deputation from the Grand Assembly of the High Knights Templar in Edinburgh… headed by their most worshipful Grand Master, Alexander Deuchar...the first time for some hundred years ...
Balantrodach became their principal Templar seat and preceptory in Scotland until the suppression of the order between 1307 and 1312. As Temple, being just to the south of the Firth of Forth , was an area of the country occupied by England at this time, knights were prosecuted, but not all were found guilty. [ 6 ]
The Templars were suppressed around 1309 but their lands and the parish church remained in the hands of the Knights Hospitaller until 1563/64. [3] From 1535 to 1811 Maryculter House was first rented and then owned by the Menzies family of Pitfodels, Aberdeen, [2] [7] though another source says it was owned by the Lindsay family until 1726. [8]
Temple Cowton Preceptory was a priory in North Yorkshire, England.The preceptory was in the village of East Cowton, 5 miles (8 km) north west of Northallerton. [1] Temple Cowton was founded in c. 1142 by the Knights Templar and was regarded as an important location on account of Edward I starting there in 1300, and at its suppression in 1308, various documents relating to all their possessions ...