What is "knights templars"

Usage examples of "knights templars".

Before her stood one of the legendary Knights Templars and she couldn't think of one thing to say to make him feel better.

Jacques De Molay, the leader of the Knights Templars, was arrested on Friday, October 13, 1307.

It turns out, you see, that the Knights Templars weren't really exterminated in 1364 as everyone has always thought.

That was the same Philip the Fair who had recently confiscated all the wealth of the Knights Templars and was currently torturing the captive officers of the order excruciatingly to death and madness to wring confessions, so as to justify his seizure of their assets.

The rest of Prince John's retinue consisted of the favourite leaders of his mercenary troops, some marauding barons and profligate attendants upon the court, with several Knights Templars and Knights of St.

Grand old Bisham Abbey, whose stone walls have rung to the shouts of the Knights Templars, and which, at one time, was the home of Anne of Cleves and at another of Queen Elizabeth, is passed on the right bank just half a mile above Marlow Bridge.

A Frenchman, devoted to the King of France (the men of that corrupt land are always inclined to foster the interests of their own people, and are unable to look upon the whole world as their spiritual home), he had supported Philip the Fair against the Knights Templars, whom the King accused (I believe unjustly) of the most shameful crimes so that he could seize their possessions with the complicity of that renegade ecclesiastic.

To this shameful contract he publicly bound himself in the church of the Knights Templars at Dover: where he laid at the legate’.

Clement V and Philip the Fair had gone on to commit the crime of the century, looting the treasury of the Knights Templars, burning and torturing innocent knights—.

The same events gave rise to the order of the Knights Templars, which, after a short time, on account of their shameless practices, was dissolved.

Clement V and Philip the Fair had gone on to commit the crime of the century, looting the treasury of the Knights Templars, burning and torturing innocent knights including the aged Grand Master, who was godfather to Philip's children.