The Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights all fought for Christendom—but their missions were completely different. One ...

Christians against Muslims, the Crusades that began in the 11th century were wars for control of the Holy Land. The Crusaders themselves were a hybrid of warrior and priest, defending the pilgrim, ...

Christians against Muslims, the Crusades that began in the 11th century were wars for control of the Holy Land. The Crusaders themselves were a hybrid of warrior and priest, defending the pilgrim, ...

The Knights Hospitaller was a humanitarian order of holy warriors during the Crusades who served as inspiration to the Knights Templar. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Teutonic Knights were one of the great chivalric orders that emerged from the Crusades, alongside the Hospitallers and Templars, but while those other knights made their names in the Holy Land, ...

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The history of the religio-military order of the Knights Templar is compelling. Inextricably combined with other similar 12th Century chivalrous orders such as the Hospitallers and the Teutonic ...

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Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold. (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing stories that ...

On Christmas Day, 1119, the king of Jerusalem, Baldwin II persuaded a group of French knights led by Hugh de Payne II to save their souls by protecting pilgrims travelling the Holy Land. And so the ...