Templar: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

A useful collection of annotated primary sources is Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate (trans.), The Templars: Selected Sources (2002). The best introductions to the Templars are Malcolm Barber, The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (1994, reissued 1996); Alan Forey, The Military Orders from the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries (1992); and Helen Nicholson, The Knights Templar: A New History, new ed. (2004). The fall of the Templars is discussed in Malcolm Barber, The Trial of the Templars, 2nd ed. (2006). Templar myths are the subject of Peter Partner, The Knights Templar and Their Myth, rev. ed. (1990; originally published as The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth, 1987, reissued 1993).

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Invalidated site: The Guardian - Whatever happened to the Knights Templar? Oct 19, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Ark - The Trials of the Templars. Oct 11, 2025
Add new Web site: The University of Alabama - Bounds Law Library - The Knights Templar: an Exhibit from our Collections. Jun 21, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - The hidden world of the Knights Templar. Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - The Knights Templar. Dec 17, 2024
Add new Web site: Portland State University - PDXScholar - The Knights Templar: The Course of God and Gold. Oct 22, 2024
Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - The Elusive Fleet of the Knights Templar. Sep 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Cambridge Core - The Knights Templar in English towns. Aug 02, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Whatever happened to the Knights Templar? May 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Historic UK - The Knights Templar. Mar 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Knights Templar. Feb 16, 2024
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Templar Knights. Nov 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - History of the Knight Templers. Jul 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Live Science - Who were the Knights Templar? Mar 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Origin of the Knights Templar � Descendants of Jewish Elders? Dec 02, 2022
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Knights Templar. Aug 22, 2022
Add new Web site: The Medieval Combat Society - Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon. May 25, 2018
Corrected display issue. May 23, 2018
Expanded treatment of the Templars' alleged involvement in the French Revolution. Dec 01, 2017
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Channel - How the Knights Templar Came to Be. Feb 15, 2017
Added video. May 08, 2015
Added new Web site: The Internet Sacred Text Archive - The History of the Knights Templar. Mar 09, 2009
Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - The Knights Templars. Mar 09, 2009
Media added. Oct 15, 2008
Media added. Aug 28, 2008
Bibliography revised. May 11, 2006
Article revised and updated. May 11, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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