Knights Templar Encyclopedia

Before heaven and earth and with all of you here as my witnesses....I declare, and I must declare, that the Order is innocent. Its purity and saintliness is beyond question. --from the final recorded statement by Jacques de Molay, the last Templar

Grand Master, on March 18, 1314, before he was led to the stake.

Who were the medieval Knights Templar?

How is their name connected to Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem?

What does their red cross symbolize?

Why were they suddenly arrested on Friday, October 13, 1307?

What unusual relics or Grail did they harbor?

Today, as never before, interest in the Knights Templar is growing exponentially especially since The Da Vinci Code. But who were these powerful knights of the

Crusades? What is fact and what is fiction And how did they become the wealthiest multinational corporation in the medieval West A