Helen Nicholson talks about her book The Everyday Life of the Templars – a look at how the Templars lived and worked
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Category: Templar History
Tags: author, banker, book, Bradford, buried, crusades, everyday, farmer, festival, Helen, hospitaller, knight, Knightfall, knights, life, Literature, Medieval, Nicholson, preceptory, secret, Templar, today, wealth
Has evidence of Templar treasure now been found off the coast of Israel? Could it be proof that the Knights Templar did indeed flee the Holy Land with tremendous bullion? Templar treasure? A team from Haifa University found the wreck…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Acre, bay, booty, bronze, bullion, chest, crusade, crusaders, discovery, escape, fled, flee, gold, Haifa, hoard, horde, israel, plunder, ship, ships, silver, Templar, Templar knights, Teutonic, treasure, university, wealth
Omne Datum Optimum (Latin for “Every Perfect Gift”) was a Papal Bull that gave full legitimacy to the Knights Templar? So, why was this pronouncement from the Pope so significant to the knights? Omne Datum Optimum – a big turning…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bernard, immunity, innocent, Knight Templar, knights templar history, money, omne datum optimum, pope, power, riches, Templar, treasure, wealth
Saddlescombe is a Templar farm that shows us how the knights made money from farming to finance the crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: armour, banking, commandery, cow, devil's dyke, estate, farm, farming, history, Knights Templar, Medieval, milk, preceptory, saddlescombe, sheep, wealth
Christians in the Middle Ages were discouraged from moneylending but Templar banking flew in the face of all that with the knights becoming very rich
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bank, bankers, banking, banks, bezant, bill, buried, cheque, cheques, coffers, Coin, deposit, gold, livres, loans, loot, missing, money, paris, preceptory, silver, system, Templar, transaction, treasure, wealth
King Philip of France, as depicted in Knightfall, crushed the Templars because he was short of money
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 13th, accusations, booty, debt, fair, friday, jewish, jews, king, knights, La Rochelle, Lombard, loot, merchant, money, Philip, pogrom, Templar, Temple, trial, wealth
How did the Knights Templar make it harder for men like Robin Hood to rob the rich by operating a sophisticated financial system?
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Category: Templar History
Tags: banker, banking, cheques, financial, gold, knight, Knightfall, Medieval, money, rich, Robin Hood, tax, Templar, treasure, wealth
