12 Facts About Knights Templar

Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar, or simply the Templars, was a Catholic military order, one of the most wealthy and popular of the Western Christian military orders.

Knights Templar is thus doubly armed, and need fear neither demons nor men.

The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights, and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions, both politically and militarily.

Knights Templar began pressuring the church to take action against the order, as a way of freeing himself from his debts.

Current position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the medieval persecution of the Knights Templar was unjust, that nothing was inherently wrong with the order or its rule, and that Pope Clement was pressed into his actions by the magnitude of the public scandal and by the dominating influence of King Philip IV, who was Clement's relative.

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Bernard de Clairvaux and founder Hugues de Payens devised a specific code of conduct for the Knights Templar Order, known to modern historians as the Latin Rule.

Knights Templar were to take their meals in silence, eat meat no more than three times per week, and not have physical contact of any kind with women, even members of their own family.

Knights Templar wore a white surcoat with a red cross, and a white mantle with a red cross; the sergeants wore a black tunic with a red cross on the front and a black or brown mantle.

Distinctive architectural elements of Templar buildings include the use of the image of "two knights on a single horse", representing the Knights' poverty, and round buildings designed to resemble the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Knights Templar were dismantled in the Rolls of the Catholic Church in 1309.

Many temperance organizations named themselves after the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, citing the belief that the original Knights Templar "drank sour milk, and because they were fighting 'a great crusade' against 'this terrible vice' of alcohol".

Knights Templar have become associated with legends concerning secrets and mysteries handed down to the select from ancient times.