Top 10 FASCINATING Facts About the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
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- The Knights Templar, a.k.a. the bad guys from the original Assassin’s Creed that you take out with pin-point accurate knife-punches to the back of the neck from horseback, are a popular facet of pop culture. Which has meant that over the years, what exactly they did and who they were has been muddied by Hollywood. So, here are 10 facts you may not know about this not-so-secret ancient order of knights…
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10. They Basically Invented Banks
9. Also Basically a Mega-Corp (That Owned Cyprus)
8. Individual Knights Were Dirt Poor
7. They Were Above All Laws
6. Had the Order Destroyed Because He Owed Them Money
5. Hundreds of Templars were Arrested on Friday the 13th
4. Caught Because of Their Beards
3. They Were Never Allowed To Surrender
2. Only about 10% of Templars were Knights
1. That Templars Always Wore Those Tunics
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One fact that you should talk about.
The portuguese Refused to punish The Templars stating that they were doing "Gods Work" and renamed them to "A Ordem de Cristo" Christ's Order and were forever protected.
Where I live we have a village named after a Templar that was claimed to be from the area (Temple Normanton) and one of the Templar’s claimed to be buried in the Clay Cross church. We also have old heath village with a 11th century church that has a lot of historical value, in fact theirs only a handful of people in the area that know it exits as you have to cross a dual carriageway to get their and it is very well hidden. This church is now being excavated for the HS2 project and their isn’t many gravestones left but their are many many bodies buried in the area. I have tried reading up about these places and their involvement to the Templar’s but not much information is about
The Scots also flat refused to punish the Templars, and the English only made token inquiry.
But most templars were french so the damage was done
Dues vult
They had also survived in some Germanic regions.
Templars the original special force.
agreed
not the Hashassins?
I think you meant to say the Spartan Hoplites.
SagaciousNihilist was just about to say the same haha and after that alexanders spider men haha and the Roman legions in general
Theres many forms of " special forces" in history long before the templars
The real thing is, those Knights were the good guys
the real assassins were the bad guys
@@kollinlorenzo3287 Pretty much. The real assassins were little more than criminals.
That’s what both sides thought
@Sway Guevara Prince Philip was a liar and a thief. He inherited a broke country thanks to his idiot father who spent all of Frankia's wealth. The Templars ran the first banking system. After having the pope excommunicated and got his childhood friend named the next pope. The two of them decided to steal the money the Templars had by declaring them heretics.
EXACTLY-- and the other TRASH out about them is just that TRASH- put out by the POOP and his FRENCH KING buddy that OWED them a fortune he couldn't pay back.
So Friday the 13th back then was like a real life Order 66?
Essentially yes
Finally someone got the parallel to the jedi!!!
I think the real-life "Order 66" would be... Actually, the name currently eludes me, but there was a Roman Emperor whose father died and he had generals across the Empire taking out his siblings, so that he could become Emperor. Generals who served under said sibling, mind you.
EDIT: Constantius II
His father, Emperor Constantine had two brothers, nine nephews, and three sons. Basically, Constantius ordered the deaths of his two uncles and all six adult cousins. With the exception of only himself, his two brothers, and his three child-age cousins. Within months, all of them had been eliminated.
Yes.
THATS WHAT ORDER 66 IS BASED OFF OF
FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD
FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY
FOR THE FAITH, FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD
GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY
Gage rynders sabaton
This song is for the Swiss Guard....
DEUS VULT DOKTORDEL!
Doktor von Pig I know but to anyone else it would would like a song for the crusades
This music isn't about the crusades or the templars. It's about the sack of rome in 1527
The Knights Templars role was to protect Christian lands from Saracen bandits and raiders. They often had to fight against larger Muslim armies that were trying to destroy the small Kingdom of Jerusalem for 200 years. It's amazing how the Western Christians were able to hold that territory for so long despite the odds. Too bad their reputation has been slandered by films like Kingdom of Heaven when in fact Muslims were often very cruel and brutal to unarmed Christians and Muslims back on those days.
And still to this day.
Jinseual. Who were the invaders? The Templars.
Mohamad A Rahman
Says the Muslim ....
Jinseual Watch Knighthfall on Netflix
Back in those days? Many still are they havent changed much. They have been violent since the begining and people who say they are a religion of peace are fooling themselves. Now that being said there are amazing muslims who do want peace and are being preyed on by their radical counter parts. Those are the people we need to protect.
*D E U S V U L T*
FarCritical
??? I've seen three people post that. What is it a reference to?
MrAcrobot yeah I meant contextually LOL
*D E U S V U L T*
@@McLovinMods its like "allahu akbar" for nazis
@@alteredbeast7145 Some say Templars began in Aztlan
finally some people who appreciate Real heroes.
if they still exist ,,I would gladly join them.
sabbeee MC .. Christianity is the 2nd largest religion in India.. educate urself racist!!
the freemasons are the closest equivalents and help people they also openly recruit
@@GrimdarkCrusader20th That is abslutely not true. The Freemasons have as much to do with the Knights Templar as the Nazi swastika has to do with the Hindu swastika.
@@MiguelCoBMaggot after a large majority of Templars fled france to avoid execution they went to Portugal to form the order of christ & if the Oak island legend is true they also went to scotland to form the Masonic order as well as that island to store what they found also during the french revolution after the king was beheaded a freemason dipped what was believed to be a Templar mantle in the blood and said "jacques de molay" you are avenged as the king was a descendant of phillip the fair who was the one who ordered the Templars execution because he was in huge debt with them so he had them confess to false crimes which led to the grandmaster at the time, Jacques de Molay being burned at the stake and after that the pope disbanded the Templar order but while he was being burned de Molay cursed the king of France who later died of a heart attack while he was hunting within a year of the grandmaster's death the pope also died in that timespan
The Order of Christ is the only remnant of the Templars. I wish they would expand their influence and take back Europe and the Holy Land. Terrorists feel that they can control us but no. The Templars will rise again and soon, we will lay witness to thousands of them riding to the Holy Land.
wow not alot of anti Christian stuff proud of you TH-cam you grow up
***** yeah u got alot of fake christains out there who forgot the real purpose of are faith
Sean McVan calm down kid
for the most part ? we are the only people of the world who preach peace and not peace through violence
Hail Satan my dark Lord and master.
lynn Lew facts christnas dont blow themself up and dont control the banks that inflate and control market that kills people that`s jews and muslims
It's nice to see an honest video, not vilifying these men that devoted their lives to God.
The crooked pope and king feared these men, that's why they betrayed them.
Well... we probably shouldn't put them too high on a pedestal. They were probably as money- and power- hungry as any other faction in Europe at that time, and charged usury at a time when it was considered very unChristian to do so. It's speculated that part of the reason King Philip was so paranoid about them is because he thought they might seize power to form their own nation, just as their brother order the Teutonic Knights did with Prussia.
Yes that putz King Phillip ...
Templars were allowed to retreat from battle if they were outnumbered 3 to 1 or more.
They were not allowed to ask for quarter but were required to grant it if asked.
Most Templars survived outside of France by just joining other Knightly orders like the Hospitallers or the Teutonic Knights.
But the order itself was effectively destroyyed and torn apart.
The Grim POMMELER Like I commented before:
" Portugal was the only country in Europe, that did not burn Templars.
Templars existed in Portugal since the 1120's, but later on, in 1319, the Portuguese created the military "Order of Christ" (also called Christ's Knights Order) that was basically the former Knights Templar order but in Portugal with a different name and with the protection of the Portuguese King, after they were abolished in 1312 by the Pope.
All the Templars who managed to survive their mass slaughter, came to Portugal and revived the order that would last at least 500 years more.
From this point on, the Portuguese Empire relied heavily on the Templars during the Age of Discoveries who accumulated great riches and power.
All the Portuguese ships during this time had the Templars/Order of Christ Cross on their sails.
Portugal was a country who was basically established by Templars and that had a lot of experience fighting Islam and spreading Christianity from all of the years of "Reconquista" in the Iberian Peninsula and the Crusades in North of Africa and Asia.
In the Reconquista, the first King of Portugal D. Afonso Henriques and his army with the aid of the Knights Templar, defeated the 5 Muslim Kings. The King itself, was brought up as a Templar when he was a kid. Legend states that Christ appeared before Afonso giving him and his men the strength to win against the Moors.
Curious fact: 2 of the original 11 Templar Knights (not 9), were Portuguese.
Portugal for me, is the perfect and true home of the Order of Templars."
The Grim POMMELER nope.
@@alexpt1527 Switzerland also welcomed them. Why do you think the Swiss are excellent bankers with a red flag and a white cross?
@@HolyknightVader999 The flag of Switzerland is a RED FLAG WITH A WHITE CROSS!! Stupid comment!!
time to play crusader kings 2 again and invade france..
razgriz821 Avenge our Order, my fellow brother!
+Avernal79
I'll see you in my Blót, heathen.
razgriz821 DEUS VULT!
razgriz821 templar came from France 😝
7macfly2 Actually false, it was just French king that turned against them first. Nothing else is inherently "French" about them. Nor any nation as a matter of fact.
TopTenz, thanks for not making an anti christian video out of this. it is really popular in these days unfortunately
top ten facts of the crusades?
Captain Haddock yep sad
I have a complaint Number 5 is wrong, Not arrested, executed by being burned at the stake. at the stake in front of Notre dame including the grand master Jacques de Molay who as he burned at the stake said that the king of France and the pope (who sold him out after being blackmailed by the french king) would meet him in heaven with-in a year, thing is the pope got sick and died and the french king died in a hunting accident within a year or they were assassinated if you like conspiracy theory's. It's hard to tell.
***** there was only cathloics and Greek orthodox
protestants seem to have are time understanding what "christian" means
Excellent, truthful , historically accurate , respectful and void of conspiracy theories . Great video
Ummm not completely but okay 👌
They seem to have a lot in common with the Jedi order. Looks like George Lucas got some ideas from real history.
dont forget the samurai and their die hard beliefs
fun fact: the knights templar were indeed an inspiration for the jedi.
Well..."jedi Knight" sorta gives it away a bit
@@martinpearse2003 Nope
@@bernisweltredsun1245 i said the same thing
now people get offended for saying there's only two genders.
Ramon Bonilla-Reyes sad how far we’ve drawn back huh?
Wouldn't you be offended if someone told you your gender isn't real?
Another dafty that doesn't know the difference between gender and sex.
I'm not homophobic or anything and it's cool and I get it until some one is gay and or lesbian or bi but i don't understand it when you need to transform your sexuality to another gender (medically) isn't that too much. If I'm wrong enlighten me, educate me) ty
@@ReegusReever Can I tell you a secret, feelings lie all the time...labelling yourself based on your feelings is the stupidest thing. There are only 2 genders..the rest are just personality traits.
@@aceraphael847 Make that two, folks. ^
Time for a tenth crusade
Ay buddy weve done it before well do it again. Islam.._ pfffft
We saw how that turned out.
No, you did not.
Death to Islam and its minions
HaHaHa
Live with honor...
Die with glory!
Hail Templars!!May God guide us!!!
Templar S DEUS VULT
DEUS VULT
Templar S ASSASSINS CREED
Templar S Altair vs Templars
NON NOBIS DOMINE
I can never get enough about the Templars/Crusades/medieval times. Very sad how the Vatican turned against them all and kept their plundered riches. Thank you for this video
The Vatican has form on that.
Don't know what your beliefs are, but many people would argue that you were one of them in a past life.
Assassins creed fan here
Love how each item of this list led into the next.
Good work!
Been following you lately with delight and intrigue. Your cadence, clever wit, sarcasm and dare I say, accent are very easy on the ears. I dig how you segued each bit into the dialogue, vs random facts counted down. More of a complete story I suppose. Love your work. Thank you and keep it up.
Simon actually posted this on the day the Order was found. Well timed, good sir!
It'd be nice to see one on the Teutons and the Hospitaliers as well.
A few escaped, spent their time underground to consolidate their resources and eventually formed brotherhood and coorporations, Abstergo being the largest, and eventually taking over the world.
Ninja Kuma - Let's Plays, Reactions, Parodies i see what you did there
Ninja Kuma - Let's Plays, Reactions, Meme's I'm not a big fan of assassins creeds story so no this is not funny
Hey s
No, they became the International Money Council from Don Rosa's Scrooge McDuck comics
Illuminati....?
Loved it. An 8 minute history that now makes me want to read about the Knights Templar.
Great video ! I have been studying the Templar for yrs. Thank you
So Templar knights were really the only respectable knights of the medieval age. They actually could die as the Muslims didn't care for European rules. As in Europe it was against the law to kill a knight if you were below their status. They also devoutly followed what they believe and gave up all their wealth for it. To bad the crusades is shrouded with controversy as the Templar knights seemed to be the most charitable of nobility. Although, some of them may have joined just to quench their blood-thirst or Muslim prejudices
I don't see what the controversy is, Islam has no claim to Jerusalem.
thank you I really needed this for my history project (:
Rogelio Morales for your history project my grand mothers family name was Morales (from Tarragona, Spain)
Leon WP thank you really appreciate it (:
Rogelio Morales no one cares
Im sure the uploader cares, do you know that nice feeling when you helped someone out?
Yeah i care that Rogelio knows something of his family origin that he didnt before, seasons greetings to all.
I believe you have misinterpreted the symbol of two Knights on one horse. The Knights were 'poor', but the two men on a horse does not signify their vow of poverty. The Knights were both Warriors and Monks. Their Rule & Order spell it all out quite clearly. The two men on the one horse signifies their dual nature of being both soldier and clergy.
It also is a symbol of their commitment to one another in all things.
This statement is incorrect. Templars did in deed share a horse as a symbolic gesture of poverty.
@@troytooke1617 - only in the early years as a matter of symbolism, and never in military situations. To ride two-up in battle was suicidal as well as disproven by their actual battle line and strategies.
I was Knighted in this Order and the story I shared is what the Prior shared when I was dubbed. Feel free to argue amongst yourselves as to what else it signifies.
@@mglamarmd1 - I was also Knighted into this Order, and my father was Priory Commander. You are describing the Ritual truth as opposed to the historical facts. The documentation of the Battle Orders from the Holy Land still exists in several museums and archives, and was even available in some of the books I had access to when I was an active Knight. I strongly advise you to do a little research.
Templars were popular in Portugal. Still legendary.
MERRY CHRISTMAS Everybody!
(and screw those who says; Happy Holidays)
TheGolfdaily and Xmas
XMAS > Happy Holidays. In xmas the x stands for christ.
TheGolfdaily, Why screw us? We don't know which holiday you celebrate, but since you do Merry Christmas! :) Shalom!
Sergei Peptoddov
You can Shalom me as much as you want buddy. I have no reasons to be offended.
TheGolfdaily Nobody cares what annoys you e-loser
Assassins creed ruining the name of the templars lol
btw whats the movie name at number 8?
Thaddeus Sampsel Its Arn The Knight Templar. There is one here on youtube, thankfully
Have you ever played any assassins creed game you dipshit ?
DORK Assassin's Creed is enjoyable, but if you consider that game as your basis of history, consider yourself delusional...
The man's right, AC ruined the true image of Templars, further worsening the constant usage of them as villains...
Avernal79 They also want peace but believe that humanity just simply cant achieve that so they want full power with th eden piece and control humanity for peace in AC. The Assassins also want peace but in another way thats why they fight. IRL the Assassins were the real villains. A bit like an ancient ISIS.
NeoShineLP definietly !
Great video man
Awesome video top tenz.
WOW, not even a reference to Jauque DeMolay
I know this might have nothing to do with the Knights Templar, but 'May the Father of Understanding guide us'
MrAcrobot assassin's creed refrences
Ubisoft as a French company seeks to ruin the name of the Templars. DEUS VULT
MrAcrobot I would prefered if in assassin's creed,the vilains were called Illuminatis and not templars
Alexi Boulos
They are both different also!
May The Father Of Understanding Guide Us.
Great video.thank you
>"Decked head to toe in heavy plate steel armor"
>everyone in the shot is wearing chainmail, plate wasn't even invented
>Ave Maria.jpg
No plate armour at that time sorry, except a bit at the very end (beginning of 14th century)
WE MUST RECLAIM JERUSALEM
xX_SHOTGUNNY _Xx Jerusalem is already in your hands
Yeah the Zionist set up the State of Israel which is pretty much in the west' pocket.
so are you trying to renew the order, create an order, talking to the pope or just being part of youtubes army of pep talkers who don't do it. People LIVE there. AND have died there while being Christian AND Arabic. Thousands of CHRISTIAN arabs were killed by both Seljuks, European Lords (who nobody really ever blames *cough* *cough*), followed up by the Mongols. How bout we give the Levant a break??
Read albert pikes letters. Ww3 will be a religious war.
The Zionist Jews or any Jews are NOT Israelites!
I know all top ten videos cant be as seamless with each of the facts but this was really well done in my opinion.
Excellent stuff thanks
Yyyyyyeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
It's so hard to believe that there were actually Europeans that awesome.
Ксения Ковалевская Really?
Spartans? Romans? Vikings? Celts? I could go on and on
Conor Mooney It's hard to believe judging by the way they act today. That's the point. not that there weren't great ones before.
Ксения Ковалевская the women were great back in the day as well now they just want to suck for a buck
Masi S yum yum
Ксения Ковалевская I think I've somewhat proved my point
Wonderful video!
Would love to see a companion piece "top 10 conspiracy theories about the Knights Templar"
You recently made a Toptenz video about samurai. So now make a top 10 facts about *Senran Kagura!*
RobotSammyTheSupreme!The true evil lord! Sammy i hate anime but… i am with you there.
then spread the word!
The Templars survived in Portugal, where they were renamed the Order of Christ. The Templar Cross is also known in Portugal as the Portuguese Cross.
Sweet video, nice Age of Empires shout out!
Awesome. Love it.
The picture of the King of France was not Philip IV of France but Philip IV of Spain, centuries later...
skiteufr I don't know if the ability to spot a Habsburg jaw makes me cool or irredeemably lame
I noticed the jaw also.
RIP
Pity the poor schmuck who had to paint the portraits of the hapsburgs and make the likenesses flattering (such as for example Velazquez who looks really depressed in his own self portrait included in his painting 'Las meninas')
DEUS VULT NON NOMINUS DOMINAE!
I am really enjoying this series. Thanks for making it available to everyone! Question: did all of the money end up in the hands of Heads of State and a select, few, super rich people? Well, besides the Pope/Vatican of course!
Interesting. Thanks 😊
Merry Christmas To All and happy new year
During that era if you owned a sword and a horse you would be considered wealthy. Therefore the individual knights who owned horses, swords and armor were rich by contemporary standards
Hi! nice video, cool facts and all :) will definetly watch your channel! thanks for the awesome work!
But just wanted to add that at 3:30 when talking about french King Philippe 4 "le Bel" (1268-1314) you put a portrait of Philippe 4 of Spain (1605-1665), so...i dont know if its possible to fix this or not but just wanted you to know :)
have a great day!
Thanks for a better perspective and putting the Templars in a more positive light than some of the crap that's out there.
Ave Maria!
Deus Vult!
When the French king and the pope ordered the templars execution, most of them came to Portugal for protection, portuguese king D. Dinis gave them protection against the pope orders, and they were renamed the order of Christ, Portugal is a templar nation, nowadays they still have a templar castle in Tomar city of Portugal. The 1st king of Portugal D Afonso Henriques was a templar knight himself. Templars were all over Europe in 1300, it’s wrong to say they were only French and lived in France.
It IS their leaders the kng of France targeted.
Didn't some seek safety in Scotland ?
@@philcarson6731 yes probably, a big part came to Portugal, but some of them ran away to other European countries away from France cos the Portuguese invite for protection didn’t reach all of them in time. They were all over Europe not only in France, but their leader and headquarters was in France before the execution orders.
History is so fascinating!
@TopTenz, thank you so much for your very informative and interesting posts! Please just note that the image in #6 is that of Philip IV of Spain (House of Habsburg, a few centuries later...) not of Philip IV of France (House of Capet). Thanks again!
Isn't he the guy from the Today I found out channel?
Nope, formalized banking first existed in the Bronze ages, beginning about 4000 years ago. Mycenaean era palaces effectively acted as giant banks.
And the bank note system used by the crusaders looks to be adopted through silk road merchant bankers who had been using the system since the 8th century, originating in China. The first modern banks began in Renaissance Italy, and most successfully by the Medici dynasty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiable_instrument en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking#Medieval_Europe (and check the main article)
he is talking bout the first formal banking system being recognize internationally. maybe we can say that the modern style of banking system coming from them... mortgage, an innovative check, etc. Which making them richer like modern bank nowadays. well but the word invented bank tick me off too.
GREAT VIDEO.............
Excellent.
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"They basically invented Banks"
Mesopotamia: ...
Greece: ...
Egypt: ...
Rome: ....
India: ...
China: .....
formal bank systems. maybe u should check your ear... on second though... yeah i need to check my ear too, since the word invented tick me off too..... he is talking bout the first formal banking system being recognize internationally. maybe we can say that the modern style of banking system coming from them... mortgage, an innovative check, etc. Which making them richer like modern bank nowadays.
The Templars still exist. They were absorbed into the Knights Hospitaller which is now known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. They still pledge their allegiance to the Pope.
I hear that there is an order in the US and another called the Order of Christ. Which is the real one?
The drawings of those executions were set in Troyes, about an hour and a half outside of Paris. It's one of the few intact medieval cities because it was fortunate enough to avoid the bombs and warfare of WWII, so the city center looks pretty much the same now as it did then.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Templars, I have 3 Templar crosses on 2 of my 5 rings
Next video! Knights Hospitaller? #TopTenz
the Wahhabi extremist & the source of Wahhabi bloody heretic ideology ... also the role of Lawrence of Arabia
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You fool... falling for Gwin's lies. Embrace the dark!
The mustard stains and beards had me laughing
OMG! I love Arn Tempelriddaren (Knight Templar). Those are some of my favourite movies ever. just under Lord of The Rings and the Hobbit trilogies. Maybe the six first movies of Star Warst though.
DEVS VVLT
Siveth I knew there would be one ..thank u
DEUS VULT
DEUS VULT !
age of empires lol. I know this isnt in 2 but Wololo wololo aiyo yo!
omg. your historical accuracy is uncanny especially for a TH-cam video kudos well done
only discretion templars who confessed were usually spared but imprisoned for life.
Simon the templars are still around today, Portugal and Malta.
So um... no one knows that they are part of FreeMasonry? No? Ok then...
Assassins creed just got to real
Jack J it was real
+AHT not all of it haha
Jack J they were real,they were called hashinshins,and they've had killed some knights of templars
The Unknown cause they were high off drugez
No, no, no... we have no evidence that Templars ever met Assassins on the battlefield. And the Hashashin considered their chief enemy of the Third Crusade to be Saladin- if they ever interacted with Templars, it would have made much more sense to be allies than enemies. The Hashashin definitely targeted a few Crusaders, like Conrad of Montferrat (and one possible hypothesis is that his death was commissioned by Richard Lionheart himself), but for the most part they used their assassination techniques against local rulers in the Muslim world. The list of their assassinations includes far more sultans and caliphs than it does European Crusaders, and that list contains no Templars as far as I'm aware.
Bonus points for mentioning Age of Empires! :-)
Fantastic
maybe "they could quote the bible backwards" wasnt the best of examples when defending them of heresy
LOL
DEUS VULT!!
Very interesting.
Realistically, it's probably too long for a T-shirt but I want "I will charge into battle first and stay there until everything around me is either dead or currently having its face cleaved in two by a two-handed broadsword" on my next T-shirt
The British accomplished Crusader mission On December 11, 1917
General Edmund Allenby entered the Old City on foot through the Jaffa Gate instead of horse or vehicles to show respect for the holy city. He was the first Christian in many centuries to control Jerusalem
On this historic occasion, Allenby reportedly declared that “the wars of the crusades are now complete”
ridiculous...
Umm, didn't Chauvel enter Jerusalem as commander the Australian Light Horse before Allenby arrived after the city was secured????
so the templars were actually good guys unless you believe assassins creed
Assassins creed is a fantasy game..
@Nicholas EnnosFactually wrong. They were considered the very best of the best of the European forces, both militarily and morally. Saladin killed all Templars (and Hospitalliers) he captured at Hattin, because he considered them a military threat. They were so effective on the battlefield, that he made sure they couldn't be ransomed off and rejoin another Crusader army.
There is also no historical record of the Knightly orders taking part in any unprovoked raids/slaughter of civilization or anything else. In fact, there's a lot of sources that claim the opposite, that the Knights of the Orders generally were the most honourable and agreeable of the Europeans, including protecting Muslim visitors to Crusader controlled Jerusalem from harassment from the more zealous/radical Chrstians, which usually were the ones who had freshly arrived from Europe.
If it wasn't obvious enough, the portrayal of Templars as villains in AC or Kingdom of Heaven, is extremely ahistorical.
For someone coming from "assassins creed". Have these details in mind. The reason why their're portrayed so badly is indeed very simple. For someone who knows a minimum of history.
You have Portuguese on one side (Templar) and Castilian (Spanish) on the other! All packed on a French publication. ;-)
It's that simple!! The rest is just business as usual.
"Hello I'm Simon Whistler..." Subcribed.
Research and being one makes a huge difference on the knowledge of their history… your welcome, love my family native and Templars past and present.
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I'm curious for the islamitic perspective to the Templar Knights.
Alexia Gaertner Templars allowed Muslims to pray in the Holy Land. One Muslim, I forget his name, but I will comment again on that when I get back home, even called the Templars his "friend".
Alexia Gaertner "friends" sorry.
This is from the book 'Arab Historians of the Crusades' by Francesco Gabrieli. The section is called 'THE TEMPLARS AT JERUSALEM' by Usama ibn Munqidh. "When I was in Jerusalem I used to go to the Masjid al-Aqsa, beside which is a small oratory which the Franks have made into a church. Whenever I went into the Mosque, which was in the hands of Templars who were friends of mine, they would put the oratory at my disposal, so that I could say my prayers there." I will keep going if you are interested, but my point was made above. However, the rest does have to do with the Templars. "One day I had gone in, said the Allah akhbar and risen to begin my prayers, when a Frank threw himself on me from behind, lifted me up and turned me so that I was facing east. 'That is the way to pray!' he said. Some Templars at once intervened, seized the man and took him out of my way, while I resumed my prayer. But the moment they stopped watching him he seized me again and forced me to face east, repeating that this was the way to pray. Again the Templars intervened and took him away. They apologized to me and said: 'He is a foreigner who has just arrived today from his homeland in the north, and he has never seen anyone pray facing any other direction than east.' 'I have finished my prayers,' I said, and left, stupefied by the fanatic who had been so perturbed and upset to see someone praying facing the qibla." Obviously, this is just one Muslim, but the Templars do as well protect individuals from other faiths as well, as shown here.
Wow, thanks.
Did the other muslims saw the Templars as hostile?
Alexia Gaertner only the hostile Muslims saw the Templars as hostile. You see, the main purpose of the Templars was to protect pilgrims (of all faiths) coming to and going out of the Holy Land. If said pilgrims were to be attacked, then the Templars would intervene through warfare.
A little bit of a correction: For most of the order's life, Templars would not have worn plate armor. By the early 1300s when the templars were captured, pieces of plate armor being attached to chain mail were only recently becoming widespread
Also during the Templar era, a "2 handed broadsword" would have been extremely unlikely to be seen in a Templar's possession. Popular weapons of the time when on foot were 1 handed swords as well as maces and flails used with a shield.
Good video.
Totally innocent? Simon, you have no clue what you're talking about.
Who are you addressing?
Kissai Sith Jen'ari Well they are innocent
DEUS VULT! DEUS VULT! DEUS VULT!
WiseDude50 lol
Thankyoux
Can you please do a video about The Knights of Saint John, The Teutonic Knights, and The Knights of Malta