King Philip pressuring Pope Clement V, the Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312 under the pressure of Pope Clement V. A rival order, the Knights Hospitallers, received both the group’s belongings ...

Although the knights were initially opposed by religious authorities, the Catholic Church officially endorsed them in 1129 and prominent abbot Bernard of Clairvaux supported them. Europeans began ...

The accepted narrative describes the Knights Templar as humble warrior monks protecting Christians on the road to Jerusalem. The Knights were later betrayed and, ultimately, destroyed. But there ...

The Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon grew quickly into a powerful religious order only to stand accused of devil worship Were the Knights Templar betrayed by the Pope or their own ...

Not only were they among the shock troops of Christendom ... Under further pressure, the Pope abolished the order and the ...

Its leaders were jailed for religious hate crimes earlier this year. In 2015, Knights Templar International (KTI) - a militant Christian group that harks back to the age of the Christian Templars ...

Looks at the engineering of the Knights Templar, the religious order that marked the rise of the Middle Ages, and their amazing buildings in the west of Europe.