Knight Templars
Knight Templars were a military order of knighthood, called in full the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon,which was founded in 1118 by Hugo de Payens, a French knight , to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land. The head house of the English branch of the order was the Temple Church , south of the Strand in London. The original building, the Old Temple erected in about 1128, was replaced by the New Temple in 1184. The Templars' wealth provoked jealousy and accusations, chiefly in France, of immorality and heresy. In 1308 the pope ordered the confiscation of the Templars' property, with which Edward II of England complied, and in 1312 the order was dissolved-to the benefit of its rivals, the Hospitallers who were granted most of the Templars' estates.
Grand Masters of the Knights Templar
| Hugh de Payens | 1119-1136 |
| Robert I de Craon | 1137-1149 |
| Everard des Barres | 1149-1152 |
| Bernard de Trémélay | 1152-1153 |
| Andrew de Montbard | 1153-1156 |
| Bertrand de Blanquefort | 1156-1169 |
| Philip I de Milly & de Nablus | 1169-1171 |
| Otto de St. Amand | 1171-1179 |
| Arnold de Torroja | 1180-1184 |
| Gérard de Ridfort | 1185-1189 |
| vacant | 1189-1191 |
| Robert II de Sablé | 1191-1193 |
| Gilbert Erail | 1194-1200 |
| Philip II de Plessiez | 1201-1209 |
| William I de Chartres | 1210-1219 |
| Peter de Montaigu | 1219-1232 |
| Herman de Périgord | 1232-1244 |
| Richard de Bures | 1244-1247 |
| William II de Sonnac | 1247-1250 |
| Reynald de Vichiers | 1250-1256 |
| Thomas Bérard | 1256-1273 |
| William III de Beaujeu | 1273-1291 |
| Tibald de Gaudin | 1291-1293 |
| Jacques de Molay | 1293-1314 |
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