Transcript The Knight`s Templar

The Knight’s Templar
A Brief History
The What?
The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ
and the Temple of Solomon
The World at the Time…
So, what the heck are the Crusades?
• A series of Military
expeditions instigated
by Popes and
undertaken by
Christian Kings to
recover the Holy Land
from the Muslims
• Between 1096 c.e. and
1249 c.e.
The Crusades had already been
going swimmingly…
• 1095 – The First
Crusade preached
by Pope urban II
• 1096 – The First
Crusade initiated
• 1099 – Jerusalem
captured from the
Muslims
It all started with…
• Hugh de Payen and
nine other members of
the French nobility.
• They traveled to
Jerusalem in 1118.
• They met Bowdoin I,
King of Jerusalem.
No, THIS St. Bernard!
Saint Bernard de Clairveaux, 1090 - 1153
In the year 1128, Bernard
assisted at the Council
of Troyes, which had
been convoked by
Pope Honorius II. It
was at this council that
Bernard traced the
outlines of the Rule of
the Knights Templars
who soon became the
ideal of the French
nobility. Bernard
praises it in his "De
Laudibus Novae
Militiae".
Purpose:
•
To Protect
Pilgrims on
their Journeys
to the Holy
Land.
•
To fight for
the Christian
right to the
Holy Land
Motto:
Non nobis Domine, non nobis. Sed nomine Tuo, da gloriam.
Not unto us oh Lord, not unto us. But in Thy name, we “give glory”.
The Knights in action.
 1119 - Knights Templar
founded (some sources cite
1118)
 1128 - The Council of Troyes,
the Rules of the Order adopted
 1145 - Second Crusade
preached
 1146 - Second Crusade
initiated, then crushed in 1148
outside Damascus in Syria
 1165 - Templars firmly
established in Jerusalem and
other major towns of Palestine,
as well as Europe
The Ark of the Covenant
Modern Banking!
The Saracen Fights Back!
 1187 - Jerusalem recaptured by
Muslims, led by Saladin (Salah adDin Yusuf Ibn Ayyub)
 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII preaches
the Third Crusade in his letter Audita
Tremendi
 1190 - Third Crusade fails to relieve
Jerusalem; Richard I of England and
Philip II of France depart for the Holy
Land
 1192 - Richard I enters treaty with
Saladin; Jerusalem opened for
Christian pilgrims
The Crusades continue…
 1198 - Fourth Crusade
preached
 1213 - Fifth Crusade
preached
 1228 - Jerusalem somewhat
surprisingly liberated by
Frederick II's treaty with the
Sultan of Egypt; held until
1244, during which time the
Templars reinstated
themselves on the Temple
Mount
 1249 - St Louis's Egyptian
Crusade, the last large-scale
offensive of its type
The Last Days of the Order
• 1291 - Acre falls as the last
bastion on the Crusader state
in Palestine
• 1307 - Philip the Fair arrests
Templars on October 13th
• 1310 - 54 Templars burned at
stake to harass remaining
Templars into confession
• 1314 - Jacques de Molay and
Guy de Auvergne* martyred,
burned at the stake on an
island in the river Seine in the
middle of Paris.
* Many modern research sources cite it was
really Geoffrey de Charnay who was
martyred with de Molay
Our Hero
 Comte Jacques Bernard de
Molay
 Born 1244 c.e. in Vitrey,
Department of Haute Saône,
France
 23rd and Last Grand Master of
the crusading order of the
Knights Templar
 Died by the hand of Philip IV on
March 18, 1314 c.e., in the Place
du Vert-Gallant, on the Ile de la
Cité, Paris
Friday, October 13, 1307
ACCUSED OF:
• Heresy
• Denying Christ
and trampling the
Cross
• Worshipping a
Cat-Headed Statue
• Worshipping
Baphomet
TORTURE!
The End?
– Jacques de Molay recants
 “I think it only right that at so solemn a moment, when my life has so little time
to run, I should reveal the deception which has been practiced, and speak up for
the truth. Before heaven and earth, and with all of you here as my witnesses, I
admit that I am guilty of the grossest iniquity. But the iniquity is that I have lied
in admitting the disgusting charges laid against the Order. I declare, and I must
declare, that the Order is innocent. Its purity and saintliness is beyond
question”.
The Last Laugh?
Clem
Phil
DeMolay’s Curse…
“Pope Clement, Chevalier Guillaume de Nogaret,
King Philippe, before a year, I am ordering you to
appear before the tribunal of God. Cursed you will
all be! Cursed until the 13th generation! “
The Last Laugh!
Jacques de Molay, tu es vengé!
Robert
the
Bruce
Bannockburn