The order of the Knights Templar was officially founded in 1119 AD by a group of nine prominent knights, led by Hugues de Payens (Hugo de Paganis). Besides Payens, the other knights were recorded as ...

A leader of an order founded in the 12th century to protect Christian in the Holy Land, has claimed that there are secret vaults in the US with the bones of Jesus. The astonishing claims, made by ...

The Knights Templar, a legendary monastic military order forged in the fires of the Crusades, continue to enthrall 21st-century audiences. From the time of their founding in 1119 C.E. to their ...

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The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon were a Catholic military order founded in 1119, active until 1312, when it was perpetually suppressed by Pope Clement V. The Templars ...

Formed around the time of the Crusades when armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to the Pope's request to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land in the Middle East. The order ...

A Vatican researcher has uncovered evidence that the order, which was brutally suppressed in 1305 by King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V, guarded and venerated the Shroud. In an article ...

The warrior monks at the centre of new historical epic 'Knightfall' have fascinated us for centuries, their mysterious aura helping to fuel myriad conspiracy theories. In many of the Knights Templar ...

The Knights Templar was an order of devout Christians founded in Jerusalem somewhere between 1118 and 1119 AD. This was after the First Crusade, a series of religious wars initiated and supported by ...