The Knights Templar: The King, the Curse and the Lost Treasure

Send us Fan Mail They began as a handful of armed monks protecting pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem. Within two centuries, the Knights Templar had become one of the most powerful organisations in medieval Europe, warriors, landowners, financiers and servants of kings and popes. Then, on Friday the 13th of October 1307, everything changed. Across France, Templars were arrested in a single coordinated operation. Their leaders were imprisoned, accusations of heresy and blasphemy followed, and b...