Today, let's learn about the Knights Templars that existed in medieval Europe. This Knights is not the Knights Templars in a certain game [Assassin's x-ray], but an organization that actually existed in medieval Europe.

Friends who are familiar with European history may understand that European history is basically a Christian history, so the birth of the Knights Templar is also closely related to religion. The Knights Templar is also translated as the Knights of the Temple of the Temple of Christ and Solomon.

This Knights have existed for a total of 200 years and is one of the three famous Knights [Hospital Knights, Teutonic Knights, and Templars]. Here we mainly talk about the other two Knights Templars without too much interpretation.

In 1119, Hugo Depaying and Gerfred Saint-Bamo were established on Temple Mount. At first, there were only 9 members who were mainly responsible for protecting pilgrims and attacking pagans. A military organization that protects religion would naturally be valued by many nobles and superiors.

In 1139, Pope Innocent II issued a holy order to confirm that the Templars were responsible only to the Pope [Pope] and that no secular regime had the right to command it, and that the Templars enjoyed tax exemption and could collect taxes on their own territory. Under such circumstances, the Knights became increasingly large and particularly rich. This terrifying power was firmly in the hands of the church, leaving no one in the Roman Catholic at that time able to shake it.

The Knights Templars were wearing white uniforms and white robes, with red crosses embroidered on the left shoulder, and the badge was that two knights rode a horse together

There is a red cross on the shield

The Knights Templars are divided into four classes:

The Knight is the person with the highest organizational subject level wearing a robe with a red cross on his back.

Sergeants are lower than knights and are the main force in grassroots combat, which is the infantry.

The farmer is mainly responsible for managing the property within the Knights.

The priest is responsible for a series of religious activities such as prayer.

How much influence is the Knights Templar?

In 1131, Nafal and Alfonso I, King of Aragon, included the Templar as the heir to the kingdom in their will, which shows the influence of the Templar on neighboring countries.

In France, many nobles gave land to the Knights. The land of the Knights was almost all over Europe and these lands were tax-free. Until the end, the Knights Templar even developed the prototype of a modern bank, because of the reputation guarantee that many nobles handed over their property to the Knights, and the Knights lend money to poor pilgrims to collect interest. From kings to ordinary people, they are their business objects. Even the Knights Templar, the enemy of Christians, came without any rejection, which is enough to show how vulnerable the power of faith is in the face of interests.

Between 1149 and 1150, the Knights Templar was ordered to guard the city of Gaza. Since then, the Knights Templar became a permanent army of the Crusades, which refers to the Crusades occupied by the Crusades.The combat effectiveness of the Knights in the countries established in the region is obvious to all. They usually have about 300 people participating in the battle, but they can often get one to ten. However, even so, in front of the huge army, the Knights Templars are still outnumbered.

In 1187, the Knights Templars were besieged by the Saladin army and almost destroyed

In the same year, Saladin captured Jerusalem and the army defended the holy land finally retreated directly to Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean.

Since 1189, the Templars began to decline. In 1291, a large number of Christian troops were killed in the siege of Aka, and the last Crusaders died together with the defending Templars.

The surviving Knights Templar retreated to the French region, because the Knights Templar had thousands of castles and huge wealth in France, which aroused the jealousy of the French king and bishop. French King Philip IV weaved the badge of the Knights Templar that two men rode together on horseback and were judged as heretics.

On October 13, 1307, almost all the Templars in France were arrested. On October 20, 1307, Pope Clemon V ordered the entire Christian world to search for the Knights Templars. In 1312, the Knights Templars were officially disbanded. On March 22, 1314, the former head of the Templars, Jacques Demole, was tied to a stake and sentenced to stake.

Before leaving, the general leader said that the French king and the pope would pay the price, but he was right. The pope died of illness a month later and the French king died while hunting half a year later.

Some members of the Knights Templar have changed their names in other regions, some have switched to other Knights, while others have given up the title of Knights Templar to be an ordinary person. At this point, the organization that is most loyal to the pope and the church in Europe was finally labeled as a heresy and disappeared into the long river of history.

The Knights Templars are not good characters at all. They can have a hundred reasons to be eliminated, but heresy is the most ironic. The most fundamental reason for it is nothing more than the Knights Templars, which has huge wealth and a large amount of land, which hurts the nerves of many European nobles and kings. As for the reason for the strike, it is an insignificant matter.