The Templars

Jerusalem 1119 A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order These are the first Knights of Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since But who were they really and what actually happened In this groundbreaking narrative history, the bestselling author of The Plantagenets for the first time in a generation tells the true story of the Templars, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and depravity have so often been shrouded in myth The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy They fought the forces of Islam in hand to hand combat on the sun baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who united Syria and Egypt to drive all Christians out of the Middle East They were experts at channeling money across borders, immune from taxation, and beyond the control of kings They established the medieval world s first global bank and waged private wars against anyone who threatened their interests.Then, in 1307, bogged down in a faltering war in the Middle East, the order fell foul of the king of France On Friday, October 13, hundreds of brothers were arrested en masse, imprisoned, tortured, and disbanded amid accusations of lurid sexual misconduct and heresy They were tried by the Vatican in secret proceedings, but were they really heretics Dan Jones goes back to the sources to tell their story, often in their own words At once authoritative and compulsively readable, The Templars brings their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, to life. New Download [ The Templars ] author [ Dan Jones ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr When you read non fiction, you hopefully learn something about the world around you if you don t, you might want to consider finding better non fiction to read, unless you re Stephen Hawking reading a Physics for Dummies book.Sometimes, though, you also learn something about yourself That something ...It was exactly a century since Hugh of Payns had established the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem Those one hundred years had seen the Templars transformed from indigent shepherds of the pilgrim roads, dependent on the charity of fellow pilgrims for their food and clothes, into a borderless, self sustaining paramilitary group funded by large scale estate management Hugh of PaynsHUGH OF PAYNS, doesn t the name itself evoke some chainmail wrapped Conan the Barb It was exactly a century since Hugh of Payns had established the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem Those one hundred years had seen the Templars transformed from indigent shepherds of the pilgrim roads, dependent on the charity of fellow pilgrims for their food and clothes, into a borderless, self sustaining paramilitary group ...Clear, readable historyDan Jones is fast becoming one of my go to authors on all things medieval His previous books that I ve read all cover British medieval history, from Henry I through the end of the Wars of the Roses With The Templars he takes his pen and gives the reader a reasonably complete overview of the Warrior Monks The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, AKA the Templars The narrative mainly unfolds chronologically with a few sidetracks The author traces their history from Dan Jones is fast becoming one of my go to authors on all things medieval His previous books that I ve read all cover British medieval history, from Henry I through the end of the Wars of the Roses With The Templars he takes his pen and gives the reader a reasonably complete overview of the Warrior Monks The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, AKA the Templars The narrative mainly unfolds chronologically with a few sidetracks The author traces their history from the beginnings in 1119 as protectors of pilgrims to the Holy Land after the First Crusade to the Pope dissolving the order in 1312 after Phillip, the King of France, engineers their downfall in order to ga...The book covers the founding of the Templars from its spectacular fundraising to its tawdry end In between you see how the Templar s mission changed from protecting pilgrims in the Holy Land to warfare and then to banking and financial services Assembly of all this material is to be saluted if only for the logistics of finding and reading its primary sources in so many languages.Most of the book is about the Templar s role in the Crusades and the many colorful participants on all sides If you The book covers the founding of the Templars from its spectacular fundraising to its tawdry end In between you see how the Templar s mission changed from protecting pilgrims in the Holy Land to warfare and then to banking and financial services Assembly of all this materia...Well it was nice to read a nonfiction book after all the YA I have been reading lately, Also the Templars have always been an interesting topic to me I associate them with the crusades and all the militaristic life that was such a big part of the 13th century both in Europe and the Middle East This book also gave me some new insights into the order and its demise , For one I thought that after the ordeal they went through in France the order was done for , but no T...Note I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley Dan Jones author of recent greats such as The War of the Roses and The Plantagenets delivers yet again with another absolutely spectacular work, and possibly his best to date From their humble origins to their great fall, from Jerusalem to burning pyres in France, Jones takes readers through a grand history of the Knights Templar His is a chronicle that offers focuses not merely on the military exploits of these legenda Note I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley Dan Jones author of r...This is an excellent non fiction research and historic study of the Templars That class of oath vow declared warrior men who were originally formed to ensure the safety of pilgrim participants Christian who traveled to see the physical locations in which Jesus was born, lived, and died This is a nearly perfect example of something I...Excellent book by historian Dan Jones on the Templars.Written in an almost linnear progression, it was much easier to keep track of what happened than some other Templar books I have read.I had only one small niggle I disliked the Anglization of names I m sorry, James of Molay just annoyed me History knows him as Jacques de Molay and that is what he should have remained Same went for the unilateral usage of of instead of de Hugh of Payens didn t ring true the way Hugh de Payens does.Sma Excellent book by historian Dan Jones on the Templars.Written in an almost linnear progression, it was much easier to keep track of what happened than some other Templar books I have read.I had only one small niggle I disliked the Anglization of names I m sorry, James of Molay just annoyed me History knows him as Jacques de Molay ...Wow What a book.I ve been a fan of Dan Jones history books since listening to his fantastic novels on the Plantagenets and the Wars of the Roses, though I was introduced to him through Netflix s acquisition of his documentary series entitled Secrets of Great British Castles Jones has a way of telling you fact laden history as if it s nothingthan a story I suppose, there s an argument that, yes, anything is a story, but too often I find that history and facts are just given as is and, Wow What a book.I ve been a fan of Dan Jone...

• English
• 27 November 2018
Dan Jones
• Hardcover
• 428 pages
• 0525428305
• Dan Jones
• The Templars