"Knights Templar" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Nov 2020 4:01 p.m. PST |
"The Knights Templar was a large organization of devout Christians during the medieval era who carried out an important mission: to protect European travelers visiting sites in the Holy Land while also carrying out military operations. A wealthy, powerful and mysterious order that has fascinated historians and the public for centuries, tales of the Knights Templar, their financial acumen, their military prowess and their work on behalf of Christianity during the Crusades still circulate throughout modern culture. After Christian armies captured Jerusalem from Muslim control in 1099 during the Crusades, groups of pilgrims from across Western Europe started visiting the Holy Land. Many of them, however, were robbed and killed as they crossed through Muslim-controlled territories during their journey…"
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| USAFpilot | 16 Nov 2020 6:06 p.m. PST |
An unholy conspiracy between the the king of France and the Pope destroyed the Templars. |
| Robert Burke | 16 Nov 2020 6:40 p.m. PST |
To put it more accurately, they were a Catholic military order comprised of knights and lay brethern. |
| Tango01 | 17 Nov 2020 12:32 p.m. PST |
And they had many gold!…(smile) Ammicalement
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| Kropotkin303 | 17 Nov 2020 1:31 p.m. PST |
They also had perhaps the first ATMs! Apparently to stop people being robbed on their travels the travellers could deposit money, say in England, then they would be given a coded message, which could be redeemed for money in say Paris. Then Paris would give the pilgrim another coded message with the new amount of credit. This could be redeemed further on in the journey. Not bad for Medieval times. |
| Tango01 | 18 Nov 2020 12:25 p.m. PST |
Thanks!.
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Armand
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