The Knights Hospitaller eagerly supported this invasion, while the Knights Templar refused to have any part in it.

Over the next few years the kingdom was threatened not only by Saladin and Nur ad-Din, but also by the Hashshashin ; in one episode, the Knights Templar murdered some Hashshashin envoys, leading to further disputes between Amalric and the Templars.

French author Louis Charpentier claimed that the Ark was taken to Chartres Cathedral by the Knights Templar.

" In the year 1128, Bernard assisted at the Council of Troyes, at which he traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar, who soon became the ideal of Christian nobility.

The medieval European Knights Templar ran an early prototype of a central banking system, as their promises to pay were widely respected, and many regard their activities as having laid the basis for the modern banking system.

Council of Vienne ( 1311 – 1312 ) disbanded the Knights Templar.

Knightly religious orders were established, including the Knights Templar, the Knights of St John ( Knights Hospitaller ), and the Teutonic Order.

This king was responsible for the end of the Knights Templar, signed the Auld Alliance, and established the Parlement of Paris.

On 25 May 1420, Henry gained appointment as the governor of the very rich Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar, which had its headquarters at Tomar.

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Ownership has been attributed to various groups ( including the Knights Templar, probably because they were at the peak of their influence around the time that Grail stories started circulating in the 12th and 13th centuries ).

She had supported her husband in donating the Augustinian provostry at Nowogród Bobrzański ( Naumburg ) and the commandery of the Knights Templar at Oleśnica Mała ( Klein Oels ).

Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.

* Lucas de Beaumanoir – Grand Master of the Knights Templar

However, the method of Rebecca's execution is presented as proposed by Lucas de Beaumanoir, Grand Master of the Knights Templar – a Frenchman and a fanatic, determined to root out " corruption " from the Templars.

Further heads, no longer available, were once held by the Knights Templar at Amiens Cathedral in France ( brought home by Wallon de Sarton from the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople ), at Antioch in Turkey ( fate uncertain ), and the parish church at Tenterden in Kent, where it was preserved up until the Reformation.

His reign saw the establishment of the first military orders, the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar ; the earliest surviving written laws of the kingdom, compiled at the Council of Nablus in 1120 ; and the first commercial treaty with Venice, the Pactum Warmundi, in 1124.

John was supported by his nobles on Cyprus, and by his continental holdings in Beirut, Caesarea, and Arsuf, as well as by the Knights Templar and the Genoese.

In Jerusalem, the royal family lived firstly on the Temple Mount, before the foundation of the Knights Templar, and later in the palace complex surrounding the Tower of David ; there was another palace complex in Acre.

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (), commonly known as the Knights Templar, the Order of the Temple () or simply as Templars, were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders.

The first headquarters of the Knights Templar, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Confronted with the invasion of Seljuk Turks, the Knights Hospitaller, headquartered on the island of Rhodes, needed another stronghold on the mainland.

Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.

* Borzoi can also been seen in cameo roles in the films Love at First Bite, Legends of the Fall (" Notchee Boy "), Excalibur, All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 ), Bride of Frankenstein, Easter Parade, Wolfen, Ziegfeld Follies, Onegin ( 1999 ), Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), Chaplin, The Avengers ( TV series ), JAG, Maverick ( 1994 ), Sleepy Hollow, Last Action Hero, and A Knights Tale ( on the DVD deleted scenes ).

Knights and mercenaries deployed in triangular formations, with the most heavily armored knights at the front.

The victorious Teutonic Knights built a castle at Elbing near, if not on top of, the destroyed Prussian town of Truso.

After a largely unsuccessful year in 2010 at Essendon, Knights was dismissed as coach on 29 August 2010, just 12 hours after Essendon's final round defeat to the Western Bulldogs.

They are sometimes used unofficially-such as amateur radio operators operating in a disputed territory or in a nation state that has no official prefix ( e. g. S0 in Western Sahara or station 1A0 at Knights of Malta headquarters in Rome ).

Malory based his book — originally titled The Whole Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table — on the various previous romance versions, in particular the Vulgate Cycle, and appears to have aimed at creating a comprehensive and authoritative collection of Arthurian stories.

The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights, and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions, politically and militarily.

Since at least the 18th century Freemasonry has incorporated Templar symbols and rituals in a number of Masonic bodies, most notably, the " Order of the Temple " the final order joined in " The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta " commonly known as the Knights Templar.

One theory of the origins of Freemasonry claims direct descent from the historical Knights Templar through its final fourteenth-century members who took refuge in Scotland whose King, Robert the Bruce was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church at the time, or other countries where the Templar suppression was not enforced.

The first military orders of knighthood were the Knights Hospitaller founded at the First Crusade of 1099, followed by the Knights Templar ( 1119 ).

In 1336, after the Prussian Crusade, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Dietrich von Altenburg founded a castle called Instierburg at the site of a former Old Prussian fortification.

An inn in the centre of Dorking, the White Horse, was developed in the 18th century ; previous buildings on this site belonged to the Knights Templar and later the Knights of St John.

The Knights Templar, who believed the Dome of the Rock was the site of the Temple of Solomon, gave it the name " Templum Domini " and set up their headquarters in the Al-Aqsa Mosque adjacent to the Dome for much of the 12th century.

The Knights Templar, who believed the Dome of the Rock was the site of the Temple of Solomon, later set up their headquarters in the Al-Aqsa Mosque adjacent to the Dome for much of the 12th century.

On the site of the village of Brașov, the Teutonic Knights built Kronstadt – the city of the crown.

* Porta Crucifera's Knights the official site of the Porta Crucifera quartiere-Joust of the Saracen

The site was acquired in the 15th century by the Charnock family from the Knights of St John of Jerusalem. The Charnocks built the original timber-framed house, around a small courtyard, about 1575-1600.

The town was located on the site of a previous Polish settlement named Łebno which was later Germanised into Lewin and Lewinburg by the invading Teutonic Knights

Temple Lane, near the site of the preceptory of the Knights Templar

Copmanthorpe was the site of a preceptory of the Knights Templar, on land given to the Templar Knights by the Malbis family ( see Acaster Malbis ).

The Teutonic Knights in Prussia built a Hof ( estate ) near the site of the Prussian Burg ( castle ) Cadina, where they held court over the native Old Prussian inhabitants in the area, until it was named Cadinen and owned by the Baysen noble family in the days of the Prussian Confederation.

The Inner Temple contains many buildings, some modern and some ancient, although only Temple Church dates back to the time of the Knights Templars who originally inhabited the site.

The original Inner Temple Hall is the Hall or refectory of the original Knights Templar building on the site, and has been dated to the 8th century.

The site chosen was the Temple Gardens, situated between the Embankment and Fleet Street, which had a recorded history dating back to 1307 and which were said to date from the time of the Knights Templar.

Later this was the site of the Knights of St John in the UK.

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The state was a major base of operations for the military order of the Knights Hospitaller, who occupied the famous castle Krak Des Chevaliers ( today a UNESCO world heritage site ).

Between 1142 and 1170 the Knights Hospitaller undertook a building programme on the site.

It was built by the Knights of St. John as an expansion of a Byzantine castle on the same site, many parts of which are still visible.

After the destruction of the old castle, the Knights built the " New Castle ", a beautiful Georgian mansion, on the banks of the Shannon Estuary about a mile west of the old site.

In 1242, the lake was the site of the Battle on the Ice () between the Teutonic Knights and Novgorodians under Alexander Nevsky.

About 1348 the Teutonic Knights constructed a wooden fortress near present-day Mrągowo named Sensburg, derived from Old Prussian senas meaning " old ", therefore maybe at the site of a former Prussian castle.