Crusades · TURNING POINT ·
Founding of the Knights Templar (c. 1120)
On the Crusades map as “The Temple of Solomon”
c. 1120 — nine knights vow to guard pilgrims on the roads and are quartered on the Temple Mount, taking its name: the Templars. With the Hospitallers they become Europe’s first standing armies — and its first international banks.
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- Knights Templar and Hospitallers (chapter 4 of Crusades)
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- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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