Order of the Knights Templar Size:Journal Because he surrendered himself to

Because he surrendered himself to death and was counted among the wicked

Count of Boulogne

but heard me when I cried out

there were things that existed in a contingent way

was a Catholic military order founded by crusaders around 1119 at a leper hospital in the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Order of the Knights Templar Size:Journal Because he surrendered himself toAfter the First Crusade, which ended in 1099, Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land where resumed. Although the cities were relatively secure under Christian control, the outskirts where not, bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to reach the Holy Land. In 1119, sponsored by Saint Bernard of Clairvoux, the French knight Hugues de Payens and 8