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war both against flesh and blood and against the spiritual forces of evil. Bernard composed a treatise, In Praise of the New Knighthood, championing the Templars Christian calling: A new sort of chivalry has appeared on earth. Nine years after their founding, the Templars gained the valuable support of Bernard of Clairvaux, who would draw up the orders rule (guidelines for community life). Their mission was to protect Christians on pilgrimage in the Holy Land, but this protection soon expanded to include the land itself. Omer, the Templars were also called The Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon because they had been granted quarters on the site of Solomons Temple. The Templars: Fabled Success, Sudden Fallįounded in 1118 by the French knights Hugh de Payens and Godfrey de St. Michael Gervers to describe the three most prominent of these unprecedented religious orders. They had been commissioned by the pope to defend the Holy Land.Ĭhristian History invited Mr. Who had so heroically saved the city of Jerusalem?īrothers in a religious order, men who had vowed themselves to poverty, chastity, and obedience.īut these devout men came from new religious groupsmilitary orders known as the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers. Victory seemed certain: Jerusalems Christian ruler, Baldwin, was away in Tripoli.īut during the night, the encamped Muslims were slaughtered in a surprise counterattack that reportedly left 5,000 dead. The Reynaut de Vichiers, who was Master of the Temple from 1255-1259 depict same images, but it is obviously not the same seal.A MUSLIM ARMY quietly set up camp on the Mount of Olives in 1152, preparing for a surprise attack on the city of Jerusalem. Long as the Order survived, however the seal went through more than one Use of this symbol continued under subsequent Grand Masters for as.This is the earliest known seal for the Grand Master of the Temple forty years after the Order was formed. At least as early as 1158 as the seal of the Grand Master of the Temple, Bertrand de Blanchefort.An English monk and chronicler from St.Matthew Paris in Chronica Majora ca 1250.The image of two knights on the horse was widely used: Of the Templars, of two men riding a single horse. Had only one horse, and this gave rise to the famous image on the seal Templars) and Godfrey were so poor that between the two of them they According to legend, Hugues de Payens (the first Grand-Master of the.The Rule forbids two riders on the same beast. It is known to have been in use since 1167. Several masters adopted this seal from the beginning of the order.No more for each knight, as well as no Templars sharing the same horse. Still, the Rule of the Order from the outset permitted three horses and Poverty of the order that they could afford only a single horse forĮvery two men. Contemporary legend held that the symbol represented the initial.There are many interpretations of the symbolism of this seal. The Templar Seal showing two knights (perhaps Hugues de Payens and Godfrey de Saint-Omer) on one horse.