Knights Templar was a group of knights whose history dates back to the First Crusade at around 1119 AD. When originally convened, the knights chosen were the bravest and most devoted Christians amongst all the men fighting in the Crusades.[footnoteRef:1] Their purpose was to help defend Jerusalem defend itself against the Muslim enemies. Also it was the job of the Knights Templar to provide protection for people who were making pilgrimages to Jerusalem for religious reasons. At first the order only had nine knights who were devoted to providing safe passage to the Holy Land and defending it from the enemy of the Christian Church.[footnoteRef:2] The Knights became extremely powerful groups of men, too powerful from the perspective of many clergymen. Over the course of time, the Knights Templar was given special permissions by both the church and national governments. In 1139, Pope Innocent II issued the Omne Datum Optimum, or papal bull, which exempted the Knights Templar from both the laws and taxation of their local communities.[footnoteRef:3] Among other things, the order had the power to levy taxes and to accept tithes as well. They had both political and religious power over the population of Europe and the Middle East, giving them effectively more power than either the clergy or the governments by themselves. The banks of the order, if they can be called that, held historical and highly valuable treasures which led to many of the current...
By the first years of the fourteenth century, the Holy Land was lost to the Middle Eastern populace and taken out of European hands. From this point, the Templars original purpose was gone and they instead devoted themselves to tasks further related to the church. [1: Karen Ralls. The Templars and the Grail: Knights of the Quest. (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2003). 10. ] [2: Medieval Combat Society. "Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon: Order of the Temple." Last modified 2008. http://www.themcs.org/history/Knights%20Templar/knights%20templar.htm] [3: "Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon: Order of the Temple."]
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