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Let's discuss the Templars, Hospitallers, and the Teutonic Knights. How were they different? How were they similar? A podcast discussion of the major military orders of the Crusades. Trump suffers ...

The Knights Templar originated in the 1100s as a military order to protect Christian pilgrims. Today, the Knights Templar are a Christian-based fraternal organization within the Freemasons focused on ...

Though their order was dissolved more than 700 years ago, the Knights Templar have continued to cast a spell over the world. Terrorists and drug cartels evoke them. Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller The Da ...