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The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the most powerful military order of the Crusades

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First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1999. This paperback edition published in 2001 by Phoenix Press / a division of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, London.

Author(s): READ, Piers Paul
Publisher: Phoenix Press / a division of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Year: 1999

Language: English
City: London
Tags: Baphomet, Christians, Crusade, Holy Roman Empire, Freemasons, Jerusalem, matriarchy, negotiable instrument, King Philip the Fair, Franks, Hospitallers, Islam, Judaism, Lionheart, Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, papacy, pilgrims, Saladin, secret societies, sodomy, Solomon, Templars

The Templars - Front Cover
Half-title
Author Biography / Also by Piers Paul Read
Title Page
Printer's Imprint
Contents
Acknowledgements
Maps
Preface
Part One: The Temple
1. The Temple of Solomon
2. The New Temple
3. The Rival Temple
Map 1. The high tide of Islam
4. The Temple Regained
Map 2. Christendom at the time of the First Crusade
Map 3. France at the time of the First Crusade
Part Two: The Templars
5. The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Jesus Christ
Map 4. Outremer
6. The Templars in Palestine
7. Outremer
Map 5. Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in the twelfth century
Map 6. Principal Templar strongholds in Syria and Palestine
8. Saladin
[photoplates]
9. Richard the Lionheart
10. The Enemies Within
Map 7. Templar preceptories and castles in the West in the mid-twelfth century
11. Frederick of Hohenstaufen
12. The Kingdom of Acre
13. Louis of France
14. The Fall of Acre
Part Three: The Fall of the Templars
15. The Temple in Exile
16. The Temple Assaulted
17. The Temple Destroyed
Epilogue: The Verdict of History
Appendices
The Later Crusades
Grand Masters of the Temple
Bibliography
End notes
Index
Rear Cover