![]() At about 1119, the French knight Hugues de Payens proposed King Baldwin II of Jerusalem the installation of a new monastic order responsible for the protection of the pilgrims. Though the city of Jerusalem now was under relatively secure control, the rest of the country was ruled by bandits, where pilgrims were routinely robbed or even slaughtered. Their organisation existed for nearly two centuries while they were able to establish fortifications throughout Europe and the Holy Land as well as a large economic infrastructure.Īfter the First Crusade recaptured Jerusalem in 1099, many Christian pilgrims travelled to visit their Holy Places. The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (in Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici) as the Knights Templar are called by full name, were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders during the Middle Ages. It is said that this very date sometimes spuriously is linked with the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition, because it was the beginning of the end of the powerful Knights Templar. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the Knights Templar grandmaster Jacques de Molay and scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested under the accusation of various heredities. The Execution of Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar ![]()
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