Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The History of the Knights Templar

The Knights Templar: Start with nine very determined knights and a couple of sacred oaths. Add a jealous and vindictive king, a puppet pope, a mysterious wagon train, and a medieval “celebrity roast,” and you get the amazing -and sometimes bizarre- story of the warrior-monks known as the Knights Templar.

3 comments:

Peter Rozovsky said...

I dropped in to their place in Akko/Acre a couple of years ago.

mybillcrider said...

Was the Maltese Falcon anywhere around?

Peter Rozovsky said...

I bought it from a vendor in the street. He insisted it was real, but I have my doubts.