"The Templar and other Monastic Military Orders" Topic

"Seven hundred years after their dissolution, the Knights Templar still fascinate. The Templars were among the most wealthy and powerful of the Western Christian military orders. In their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, Templar knights were among the crack fighting units of the Crusades.

The organization existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages, roughly the same two hundred years that the crusaders held land in the Middle East…"
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Armand

Interesting that in all these discussions and writings about the Crusades' Christian Military Orders, the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre are never mentioned. They were established in Jerusalem, at the Holy Sepulchre, as individuals, sometime shortly after the end of the First Crusade (1099), and before about 1106 when they were mentioned in a Papal Bull, but weren't organized into a formal order until sometime later. So their fighting in the subsequent 2nd and 3rd Crusades was probably as individual knights with the specific distinction of being a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, or as a loose "association" of sorts. They have been in continuous existence since. The order's mission is still to work to maintain Christian access to the sacred sites, and to help the Christians who live in the Holy Land. But, because they weren't organized in time and don't have a military record comparable to the Templars, as an established, formal order, nobody seems to remember them.

Interesting thread my friend… thanks!.

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Armand