Templar Knights

Jerusalem's sworn protectors

Templar Knights is a reversed form of Knights Templar, the medieval Catholic military order founded around 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land.

The order grew wealthy and powerful before being suppressed in 1312.

In modern usage, Templar Knights often appears in fiction, video games, and conspiracy theories: The Templar Knights guard an ancient secret in the novel.

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Crusades · Catholic Church · Pilgrims · Friday the 13th · lost treasure · Holy Grail · Baphomet · Reconquista · Feudalism · warrior monks · military order · Jerusalem · Holy Sepulchre · Middle Ages · Acre · Symbolism · Red Cross · Pilgrimage

Opposites
religious affiliation in crusading context

Templar KnightsSaracens

Medieval term for Arabs

Mamluks · jihadists

institutional power and fate

Templar KnightsKnights Hospitaller

Crusading order from Jerusalem

Knights of Malta · Teutonic Knights

organizational secrecy and mystique

Templar KnightsBenedictine monks

Catholic religious order members

Jesuits · Salvation Army

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