They protect pilgrims in Holy Land from Saracens?![]()
In a manner of speaking. The local representative told me their mission is to protect tourists visiting the Holy Land.
They protect pilgrims in Holy Land from Saracens?![]()
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You may call it ASB, but I'm thinking about a timeline where the Templars are granted an entire country of their own, where they can be safe from the greed of powerful monarchs. Not the Holy Land, but some place on the edge of Christendom - like southern Spain or Portugal; perhaps some of the fiefs of the Frankokratia, where they decide to spread Catholicism and root out Orthodoxy, before the Empire of Nikeia reclaims its homeland.
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You may call it ASB, but I'm thinking about a timeline where the Templars are granted an entire country of their own, where they can be safe from the greed of powerful monarchs. Not the Holy Land, but some place on the edge of Christendom - like southern Spain or Portugal; perhaps some of the fiefs of the Frankokratia, where they decide to spread Catholicism and root out Orthodoxy, before the Empire of Nikeia reclaims its homeland.
IIRC didn't the Knights Hospitallers absorb most of the remaining members and assets of the Templars as well after all the unpleasantness had wound down?Actually, the Knights of Christ in Portugal--who are still around, I believe--were created by disbanding the Templars--then creating a new holy order under protection of the king that was essentially "Knights Templar with the serial numbers filed off".