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  Knights Templar
Represented on one of their seals, the structure was believed to be a remnant of the Temple of Jerusalem, and was the model for many Templar churches in Europe, for example the Temple[?] church, London.
Many kings and nobles supported the Knights at that time, and only dissolved the order in their fiefs when ordered so by Pope Clement V. In particular, Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots, had already been excommunicated for other reasons and was not, therefore disposed to pay any attention to Papal commands.
Conspiracy theories related to the suppression of the Knights Templar often go far beyond the simple and obvious motive of simply seizing property, which was and remains an extremely common motivation for all forms of religious persecution.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/te/Temple_Knights.html   (762 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Knights Templar
The Knights Templars were the earliest founders of the military orders, and are the type on which the others are modelled.
In 1118, during the reign of Baldwin II, Hugues de Payens, a knight of Champagne, and eight companions bound themselves by a perpetual vow, taken in the presence of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, to defend the Christian kingdom.
Bernard was the leading spirit, the Knights Templars adopted the Rule of St. Benedict, as recently reformed by the Cistercians.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14493a.htm   (3147 words)

  
 Temple of Sakkara - "The Knights Templar" - a rough draft, by Mary Hardy
Temple of Sakkara - "The Knights Templar" - a rough draft, by Mary Hardy
These temples were placed on ley lines and used to resonate the grid so that the spirit of their etheric bodies could be balanced and developed into a higher frequency.
The Knights explaining to us that the parish priest, Sonais, was paid by the Hapsburg's to realign the grid so that the New World Order could start their malicious control of preventing humanity from overcoming matter and advancing into the star systems.
www.templeofsakkara.com /thetemplars.htm   (3918 words)

  
 Christian Chivalry and Freemasonry in Canada
The original Knights of the Temple were Christian warriors; they were men of Faith, inspired with love of God and the Church.
The Knights of the Temple and the Knights Hospitaler were the Red Cross organization of that day.
Knights of today claim no direct legal descent from those ancient knights of old, yet they do claim to carry on the virtues for which they fought, bled and died.
www.knightstemplar.ca /history/index.htm   (1366 words)

  
 Temple Balsall, Warwickshire
Temple Balsall lies near the centre of the old Forest of Arden.
In 1312 the Knights Templar were disbanded under a papal directive, and their properties were transferred to the Knights Hospitaller, another crusading order of Knights.
The Knights Hospitaller were disbanded, by Henry VIII as part of his dissolution of monasteries, and the Church fell into neglect.
www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk /balsall.htm   (619 words)

  
 OSMTH-International Knights Templar
These courageous knights gained the favor of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem who granted them part of his palace for their headquarters, which was located in the southeastern part of the Temple Mount, called "Solomon's Temple".
With only nine knights at their inception, scholars acknowledge that it seems as though no major efforts were made to recruit any new members until around 1128, when most of the original knights had returned to France and the Council of Troyes began (Jan. 1129) and they became officially recognized by the papacy.
Together with the Hospitallers, the Knights Templar became the permanent defenders of the Latin settlements of the East, increasingly entrusted with key castles and fiefs.
www.osmth.org /medieval.asp   (2276 words)

  
 Knights of Templar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Knights Templar were the manifestation of a "new chivalry" which united the seemingly incompatible roles of monk and warrior.
The knights were charged with the sins of greed and pride, and these accusations became serious with fall of Acre in 1291.
The Knights Templar represent a chivalric impulse to seek the ideal in the face of opposition, whether it be the Cid's perfect loyalty, the bottomless depth of Tristan's and Iseult's love, or the divine goodness of Christ.
faculty.smu.edu /bwheeler/Ency/templar.html   (1318 words)

  
 Knights Templar
According to legend, the Knights Templar was founded in 1118 to protect tourists headed for Jerusalem.
The Knights Templar eventually dedicated themselves to protecting the lives of these descendants of Jesus, the Merovingians.
Today, the Knights Templar is the name of a branch of Freemasonry.
www.rotten.com /library/conspiracy/knights-templar   (627 words)

  
 Knights Templar
The recorded actions of the knights make this an even more incredible scenario, for they did not patrol the dangerous roads of the Holy Land to protect the pilgrims, but spent nine years in the dangerous and demanding task of excavating and mining a series of tunnels under their quarters on the Temple Mount.
Within fifty years of their foundation, the Knights Templar had become a commercial force equal in power to many states; within a hundred years they had developed into the medieval pre-cursors of multi-national conglomerates with interests in every form of commercial activity of that time and were far richer than any kingdom in Europe.
Knights Templar dedicated to the study of the Order of the Knights of the Temple, a religious military order born out of the First Crusade.
www.tylwythteg.com /templar.html   (8353 words)

  
 TEMPLARS EXCAVATON OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
According to Knight and Lomas in The Hiram Key, the Temple of Solomon was a structure designed under the precepts of "sacred" geometry by the earliest progenitors of Freemasonry, and was laid out in such a way as to invoke the essence of the Egyptian myths of Isis and Osiris.
The same legends also claim that the Templars found many other sacred artifacts from the old Jewish temple in the course of their investigations and that a considerable quantity of documentation was also located during the dig.
Shortly afterwards, the Knights were given the official seal of the Roman Catholic Church, and their numbers swelled as wealthy landowners and aristocrats joined their ranks.
alandpeters.tripod.com /knightstemplarera1188to1312/id15.html   (3928 words)

  
 Knights Templar - Discover Their Secrets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Others have claimed that the Knights Templar was actually a secret society that was attempting to revive gnostic beliefs.
Because of this official sanction, they received massive donations of money, land, and noble-born sons from families across Europe, who were encouraged to donate support as their way of assisting with the fight in the Holy Land.
Templar Knights also fought alongside King Louis VII of France, King Richard the Lion-Hearted, and in battles in Spain and Portugal.
www.knights-templar-secrets.com   (556 words)

  
 Knights Templar - Crystalinks
The Templar Knights or 'Poor Knights of Christ' were a monastic order of knights founded in 1112 A.D. to protect the pilgrims along the path from Europe to the Holy Lands (Jerusalem).
A contemporary tells us that there were 400 knights in Jerusalem at the zenith of their prosperity; he does not give the number of sergeants, who were more numerous.
Many kings and nobles supported the Knights at that time, and only dissolved the order in their fiefs when so commanded by Pope Clement V. Robert the Bruce, the King of Scots, had already been excommunicated for other reasons, and was therefore not disposed to pay heed to Papal commands.
www.crystalinks.com /templars1.html   (4604 words)

  
 Ballin Temple - living naturally
Little remains of this temple today but Lewis’s invaluable Topographical Dictionary of Ireland states that, in 1837, there was at Ballintemple “the ruins of an old church, beautifully situated on the margin of the River Slaney”.
Although the history of the Knights Templar was much censored over the course of the Middle Ages, their stories rapidly became the stuff of legends.
Symbolic or not, Kilmainham was itself a former stronghold of the Knights.
www.ballintemple.com /history/darkknights.html   (1785 words)

  
 Order of the Knights Templar
The founders were Hugh de Payns and Geoffrey de Saint-Omer, French knights who in 1118 established a religious community on the ancient site of the Temple of Solomon (hence Templars) which was dedicated to protecting pilgrims in the Holy Land.
The Templars were divided into knights, chaplains, sergeants, and craftsmen, organized under a Grand Master and general council.
The Warriors and the Bankers: A History of the Knights Templar from 1307 to the Present.
www.occultopedia.com /o/order_knights_templar.htm   (3947 words)

  
 Knights Templar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The order was founded around 1118 by French knights Hughes de Payens, a veteran of the First Crusade, and Geoffrey de St. Omer for the protection of pilgrims on the road from Jaffa and Jerusalem.
The Dome of the Rock, one of the structures at the Temple Mount
The dissolution of the Templar order is well documented, and its remaining members after the destruction of the order in 1314 were absorbed into the Knights of the Hospital of Saint John, which continued as a minor military entity throughout the middle ages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knights_Templar   (2424 words)

  
 Templar Knights
At first they were called The Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon, and eventually they shortened it to Knights of the Temple, then Knights Templar.
Their trademark which made them instantly recognizable was short hair and bushy beards, and the Knights wore a white tunic signifying purity, and a red Maltese 8-pointed cross on the chest.
Another brotherhood that was around were the Knights of the Hospital, or Hospitaller Knights; they had been formed before the Templars did, and their mission was to give free care and hospital help to christians in the Holy Land; they didn't become a military order until after the Templars got started.
members.tripod.com /Immortalg/templar.htm   (941 words)

  
 The Knights Templar | Who Were The Knights Templar? | templarhistory.com
The answer to the question, who were the Knights Templar is likely to generate a variety of opinions, depending upon who answers the question.
Christian crusaders, anti-Christian demon worshipers and the first and greatest of the monastic warriors who fought during the Crusades are but a few of the many theories related to the Templars.
On March 19th, 1314 the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake.
www.templarhistory.com /who.html   (621 words)

  
 The Crown Temple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The temple of Jupiter in Rome, and a fort or castle, on the Mons Capitolinus.
The principal are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.
Because the Pope created the Order of the Temple Knights (the Grand Wizards of deception) and established their mighty Temple Church in the sovereign City of London, it is the Pope and his Roman Capitols who control the world.
www.worldnewsstand.net /history/The_Crown_Temple.htm   (7539 words)

  
 The Knights Templar | A History And Mythos Of The Knights Templar | templarhistory.com
The destruction of the Knights Templar in the years between their arrest in 1307 and the execution of Jacques de Molay in 1314 raise many more questions than have ever been answered.
Bruce Hunter and Andrew C. Ferguson attempt to answer some of them in part one of their two-part series on what happened to the Order of the Temple After The Fall, which took place in the early years of the 1300s.
Among the first of the new books to be reviewed is The Knights Templar in the Golden Age of Spain.
www.templarhistory.com   (276 words)

  
 3D Gamers :: Game Listing :: Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade Info
You are Paul de Raque, a Knight of the Temple, journeying to the Holy Land to join your order in Jerusalem.
Armed with the weapons of a medieval knight you must face opponents, both human and demonic to reach your goal and prevent the Great Enemy to achieve his prize; to create a hell on earth condemning the souls of the humankind to the eternal flames of damnation.
The core of the game is medieval style fighting with the classical weapons of European knights, coupled with stunning graphics of the historical milieus of the 12th century crusades and the otherworldly locations of your worst nightmares.
www.3dgamers.com /games/knightstemple   (286 words)

  
 Britannia: The Knights Templar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Knights Templar were an order of warrior/monks officially founded in 1118 by Hugues de Payns after the successful campaign to recapture the holy city of Jerusalem.
They were originally known as the "Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon," and their stated purpose was to protect Christian travellers to the Holy Land.
It is believed by some that a conspiracy between the French crown (particularly Philip and his chancellor, Guillaume de Nogaret) and the Vatican, who feared and envied the power and wealth of the Templars, was responsible for their demise.
www.britannia.com /history/bb1312.html   (483 words)

  
 Knights beat Temple - Sports
In a demonstration of how good this Scarlet Knight team (11-4) can be, it more than overcame a slow start to blow past the Temple Owls (14-7) in four games (24-30, 30-23, 30-18, 30-24).
The win exacted a measure of redemption for the Knights, who extended their home-winning streak to 16, over the last team other than Rutgers to win at the College Ave Gym.
In addition to the solid statistics, Castillo unveiled a lethal jump serve that was a large factor in the Knights wide margin of victory.
www.dailytargum.com /news/2001/10/25/Sports/Knights.Beat.Temple-132566.shtml   (390 words)

  
 Founding of the Knights Templar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their Order of Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon grew from a group of pious soldiers who fathered in Jerusalem during the second decade of the twelfth century.
Each knight was allowed three horses but with the symbolic exception of the lion, hawking and hunting were forbidden.
The Knights Templars wore white mantels emblazoned with a red cross and rode to battle behind a white and fl banner called the Beauseant, after the piebald horsed favored by the order's founders.
www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/masons/templars.html   (5558 words)

  
 Cressing Temple
Stop Press - Celebrating 700 years of the Knights Templar - The Cressing Conference.
The site has its origins in the 12th century, when it was the first grant land of land given to the Knights Templar in England.
It is home to the two finest Templar barns in Europe.The site is made up of a group of remarkable farm buildings, the barns, a Templar well and a Tudor walled garden.
www.cressingtemple.org.uk   (163 words)

  
 THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
The Knights Templars fought to the death, as fighting was their mainstay.
The Knights Templars fought like demons for hundreds of years in the various Crusades meeting the end at Acre, their last stronghold in the Holy Lands (1291).
The year is 1307 and Jacques de Molay is Grand Master of the Knights Templar; Phillip le Bel (the fair) was King of France; Pope Clement V was on the Papal throne in Rome; Guillaume de Nogaret was the chief aide.
arkphagrandlodge.com /knightstemplar.htm   (1498 words)

  
 Knights Templar Society Regalia, nights templer titles
The Knights Templar is an organisation dedicated to fraternal friendship based on honour and integrity.
The Knights Templar used sacred geometry & symbols in their ceremonies & rituals, and believed in the brotherhood of mankind.
The Knights Templar of Britannia today live by the same spiritual code of Honour: 'Do the Right Thing, Be Honourable at all times'.
www.knightstemplar-uk.co.uk   (187 words)

  
 North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
The Knights earned Rutgers its first second-round win in five years, but there was little jubilation afterward as all their energy was spent warding off a fierce Owls team.
Temple kept Rutgers to just one field goal over the game's final 12:39, whittling what was once a 17-point lead to a heart-pumping six-point margin late in a game that ended a minute shy of midnight.
Pondexter set up Jett for another two points, stole the ball, dished out two more assists, hit both of her own shot attempts and a free throw and by the time she was whistled for her first blunder, even the referee was amused by her sheepish smile.
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