I: THE POOR KNIGHTS OF CHRIST. The beginning of the order ; Hugh de Payns ; Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem ; Hugh, Count of Champagne ; Bernard of Clairvaux ; Hugh de Payns takes Templars on the road ; The Council of Troyes ; Go forth and multiply ; The life of a Templar, according to the Rule ; Melisande, Queen of Jerusalem ; Fulk of Anjou, the Queen's husband ; The Temple in Jerusalem ; The popes get involved (you knew they would) ; The Second Crusade -- II: THE GLORY YEARS. Grand Masters, 1136-1191 ; Between the Second and Third Crusades (1150-1191) ; Who were the Saracens, anyway? ; Saladin ; Richard the Lionheart ; The Assassins ; The Hospitallers ; Grand Masters 1191-1292/93 ; The Templars and the Saint, Louis IX of France ; Templars and money ; Templars in Paris ; Templars in London ; The last stands; the fall of Acre and loss of the Holy Land -- III: THE END OF THE ORDER OF THE POOR KNIGHTS. Jacques de Molay: the last Grand Master, 1292-1313 ; Philip the Fair ; Friday the Thirteenth: the arrest and trials of the Templars ; The charges against the Templars ; Guillaume de Nogaret ; The Council of Vienne and the end of the Order ; Time line of the trials ; The trials outside of France ; The secret rite of initiation ; Marguerite Porete ; Who were the Templars? ; The other guys: regional military orders ; Baphomet ; The Cathars -- IV: BEGINNING OF THE LEGENDS. Templars in fiction ; What happened to the Templars? ; The Holy Grail ; Templars in Denmark: Bornholm Island ; Templars and the Shroud of Turin ; Templars in Scotland: Rosslyn Chapel ; The Freemasons and the Templars -- How to tell if you are reading pseudohistory -- Templar time line.
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