The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knight Templar \Knight" Tem"plar\; pl. Knights Templars. See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
Wikipedia
Knight Templar is the title of a mystery novel by Leslie Charteris first published in October 1930. This was the fourth book—and third full novel—featuring Charteris' Robin Hood-inspired anti-hero, Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". The title of the book is a pun on the religious organization Knights Templar. Later editions were titled The Avenging Saint and the book is also well known by this title, which was first used in a 1931 edition.
Usage examples of "knight templar".
On arriving at Torquilstone, while the Knight Templar and the lord of that castle were each intent upon their own schemes, the one on the Jew's treasure, and the other on his daughter, De Bracy's squires conveyed Ivanhoe, still under the name of a wounded comrade, to a distant apartment.
But she hadn't seen Armand for over a month and had rather missed the opportunity to get to know a real live Knight Templar.
Adam had seen and handled a similar cross in the keeping of John Graham, and himself had been a Knight Templar in a previous life.
Yesterday, when you faced down the Knight Templar, I was ready to wet my breechclout!
They were abolished by order of the Pope in 1312 but the Templars survive today through the Masonic Fraternity whose Freemasons cherish the distinction of the degree of Knight Templar.
She thought of me as her Knight Templar, and I was astonished to discover that this was precisely what I wanted to be.