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The Templars were an organization of hybrid monk-knights founded after the First Crusade to protect pilgrims and fight Muslims in the Holy Land. They became powerful landowners in all of Europe and maintained their wealth until their abrupt arrests and eventual dissolution in th…

This study focuses on the military and political activity of the three great military orders--the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights--in the eastern Mediterranean during a critical juncture in their history. It begins in 1291, with the catastrophic loss of the city of …