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24th October 09, 04:14 PM
#26
About the Templars (sort of)
Setting aside the "Masonic Templars", who make no claim to be a continuation of the original, crusading, order, there are probably a dozen or more "orders" that style themselves as "Templars". Despite what may -- or may not -- have been a clandestine continuation of the original order, virtually all "Templar Orders" today are the result of a single action by the Vatican in 1846/7.
Prior to that date anyone visiting the Holy Land could be admitted to the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and receive the accolade of knighthood with a sword alledged to have belonged to King Baldwin. This was administered by the Orthodox Patriarch and all sorts of people became Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1847 the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (OHS) was taken over by the Roman Catholic Patriarch, and the rules changed. Henceforth only Catholics would be admitted to the OHS, and non-Catholics were dismissed from the order.
Obviously this did not sit well with the non-Catholic knights who reorganized themselves into "The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem"-- with its headquarters in Belgium where the "Grand Magestry" was located until it moved to it's present location in Portugal, during WWII. From their HQ in Belgium "Templars" spread into Germany and, via Aberdeen, into Scotland in 1848.
From 1948 on, the post WWII history of the "Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem" becomes one of schism and counter-schism along with the creation of numerous "self-styled" Orders of the Temple.
Those interested in knowing more should read John Robinson's excellent "Born in Blood", as well as the numerous writings of Lord Ashburnham and those of the Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval (author of the "Jacobite Peerage".)
Last edited by MacMillan of Rathdown; 26th October 09 at 08:02 PM.
Reason: for clarity
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