The only foreign troops who joined him were those of King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia and the combined forces of some French Knights Templars and Hospitallers ; some sources report that at the last moment, however, they stopped their troops close to Legnica, probably fearing that the Christian Army would become an easy prey to the Mongolian troops ; the tradition that the Teutonic Knights were also represented by a small contingent is today disputed.

The Templars is one of the primary sources of antagonists for Nephilim, who along with the Rosicrucians supply the most organized opposition.

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.

The Black Templars in Warhammer 40, 000 have an item called the Holy Orb of Antioch, which is a very powerful hand grenade carried by Black Templar commanders.

Still other stories claim that a secret line of hereditary protectors keep the Grail, or that it was hidden by the Templars in Oak Island, Nova Scotia's famous " Money Pit ", while local folklore in Accokeek, Maryland says that it was brought to the town by a closeted priest aboard Captain John Smith's ship.

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.

As the Templars and Hospitallers supported opposite sides, they also attacked each other, and the Templars broke the treaty with the Ayyubids by attacking Nablus in 1241.

In October, the Khwarazmians, along with the Egyptian army under the command of Baibars, were met by the Frankish army, led by Philip of Montfort, Walter of Brienne, and the masters of the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights, along with al-Mansur and Dawud.

Acre was defended by Henry II's brother Amalric of Tyre, the Hospitallers, Templars, and Teutonic Knights, the Venetians and Pisans, the French garrison led by Jean I de Grailly, and the English garrison led by Otton de Grandson, but they were vastly outnumbered.

After the Templars were involved in several unsuccessful campaigns, including the pivotal Battle of the Horns of Hattin, Jerusalem was captured by Saladin's forces in 1187.

The Templars still managed many businesses, and many Europeans had daily contact with the Templar network, such as by working at a Templar farm or vineyard, or using the Order as a bank in which to store personal valuables.

Templars being death by burning | burned at the stake.

Many churches still display holy relics such as the bones of a saint, a scrap of cloth once worn by a holy man, or the skull of a martyr ; the Templars did the same.

This accusation of idol worship levied against the Templars has also led to the modern belief by some that the Templars practiced witchcraft.

The first Grail romance, Le Conte du Graal, was written around 1180 by Chrétien de Troyes, who came from the same area where the Council of Troyes had officially sanctioned the Templars ' Order.

However, in the extensive documents of the Templar inquisition there was never a single mention of anything like a Grail relic, let alone its possession by the Templars, nor is there any evidence that a Templar wrote a Grail Romance.

It is not clear if the process against the Templars was initiated by the Inquisition on the basis of suspected heresy or if the Inquisition itself was exploited by the king of France, Philip the Fair, who wanted the knights ' wealth.

' However, the above quote is in the context of a section in Gardner's book examining why the Templars were executed by the Christian Church, so it is entirely possible that the reference is not to Gardner's own opinion of homosexuality but that of earlier Christians.

* Malcolm Barber, The Trial of the Templars.

Modern scholars such as Peter Partner and Malcolm Barber agree that the name of Baphomet was an Old French corruption of the name Muhammad, with the interpretation being that some of the Templars, through their long military occupation of the Outremer, had begun incorporating Islamic ideas into their belief system, and that this was seen and documented by the Inquisitors as heresy.

* Malcolm Barber, Trial of the Templars

* David M. Fahey, " Temperance & Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars " ( University Press of Kentucky, 1996 ).

*" Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry ", by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, Fair Winds Press, 1 August 2001, ISBN 1-931412-76-6

* David S. Brody, Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower: a novel 2009, Martin and Lawrence Press, Groton, Mass: ISBN 0-9773898-7-1

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars was released for PC and PlayStation in 1996 and was later ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2002.

In 2002 Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars was also published on the Game Boy Advance and in 2006 the game was also published for the Palm OS and Pocket PC.

* Archivio Segreto Vaticano ( 2007 ), Processus Contra Templarios ( Prosecution Against the Templars ), ISBN 978-88-85042-52-0.

Selected sources extrapolated from Appendix A are:

Selected satellite, surface gravity and astrogeodetic data available through 1972 from both DoD and non-DoD sources were used in a Unified WGS Solution ( a large scale least squares adjustment ).

* Selected sources of Bulgarian history ( Podbrani izvori na balgarskata istoria, Подбрани извори за българската история ), Vol.

The Heritage of Kansas: Selected Commentaries on Past Times ( 1960 ) 852pp ; essays by historians and primary sources online

* Evliya Çelebi: Selected Stories by Evliya Çelebi, edited by Zeynep Üstün, translated by Havva Aslan, Profil Yayıncılık, Istanbul 2007 ISBN 978-975-996-072-8

* Selected prose works of G. E. Lessing, translated by E. C. Beasley, B.

* Selected ' prophecies ' from Volume II of the notebooks ( translated )

Two selections have been translated, Evocations of Love ( 1960 ) and Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg ( 2005 ).

* Selected works of Theodore, translated into English by Archimandrite Ephrem.

* Selected Poetry and Drama of Leah Goldberg, translated by Rachel Tzvia Back ( Toby Press, 2005 ).

"< ref name =" Luther "> Selected passages from Martin Luther, " Commentary on Galatians ( 1538 )" as translated in Herbert J.

Selections of his work were translated into English in Twenty Poems of Vicente Aleixandre ( 1977 ) and A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vincent Aleixandre ( 1979 ; Copper Canyon Press, 2007 ) ( translated by Lewis Hyde ).

Selected Correspondence 1915-1963, translated and edited by Sidney Buckland.

* Selected Poems-1960 ( translated by P. F. Widdows )

* Second-Hand Souls: Selected Writing by Nichita Danilov ( translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter )

* Ryokan: Selected Tanka and Haiku, translated from the Japanese by Sanford Goldstein, Shigeo Mizoguchi and Fujisato Kitajima ( Kokodo, 2000 )

Selected Writings of Max Reger, edited and translated by Christopher Anderson.

He also translated and edited Stravinsky, Selected Correspondence ( 3 vols., N. Y., 1982, 1984, 1985 ).

* Fire on the Mountain: The Selected Haiku of a Wandering Zen Monk Taneda Santoka translated by Hisashi Miura and James Green

* Masaoka Shiki, Songs from a Bamboo Village: Selected Tanka from Take no Sato Uta, translated by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co. © 1998 ISBN 0-8048-2085-6 pbk pp. 298 tanka

Selected, edited, and translated by Leonard Fox.

Selected, edited, and translated by Leonard Fox.

* Selected poetry / Nazim Hikmet ; translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk, New York: Persea Books, c1986.

Shinsengumi could be translated as " Newly Selected Corps " ( Shinsen means " new chosen ( ones )", while " gumi " translates as " group ", " team ", or " squad ".

* Make A Shield From Wisdom: Selected Verses from Nasir-i Khusraw's Divan, translated and introduced by Annemarie Schimmel ; London: I.

* Selected Short Stories, ( 1935 ) translated by Charles Wharton Stork.

Selected comics were translated into English, under the title The Wonderful World of Sazae-san.