WI: The Knights Templar never were 'disbanded'?

Not to sound like a conspiracy nut, but what makes you think they really did?
Because for the sake of argument I wish to conform to the common accepted idea. And beside if were vying for world domination they would just

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Adios, Boom. Bummer.

I think they'd sort of fade into the background, the better to keep their treasure out of the hands of the British.
 
Um nothing really, at the time they were disbanded in 1910 they werent even a military order any more and were just an order of merit that got smacked around by the King of Portugal.
 
Id they remained at the forefront of the military throughout the centuries then basically you would see a nation without borders or possibly the middle east just a helluva lot more screwed up than it is.
 
They'd probably be like the Knights of St. John. Holding out in some part of the Med, (Cyprus?) through the early modern era before morphing into somthing else the way the Hospitolars became an ambulance and hospitol service.
I could see a Templar contingent at Lepanto.
 
They might be given the Balearics when they're forced out of Cyprus by the Ottomans. Then you have two rich pirate states going after Barbaresk state shipping. Will Napoleon plunder them too?
 
They'd either:
1- Agitate for a new Crusade and keep the Crusading fires burning, at least for a few more years.
2- Give up Crusading and go purely into finance etc. or hire themselves out as mercenaries. Maybe pull a Teutonic

ASB alert: They finance the King of Spain, discover America and they found the United States!!! Yay- I think Dan Brown just orgasmed!
 
I for one believe they continue. As many people have pointed out and or made links elsewhere throughout history groups such as the Masons apparently continue this legacy BUT hell, I think they still exist as the Templars :)

Oh just finished AC2/. Rather spun out by Minerva talking to you at the end hah thought I was imagining things
 
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