The Knights Templar: The Secret Order That Became Too Powerful

Podcast: Cults and Secret Societies · Forbidden Knowledge Network

Opublikowano: 2026-09-11

In France, on Friday the thirteenth of October, thirteen hundred and seven, King Philip the Fourth ordered the mass arrest of the Knights Templar, one of medieval Christianity’s most privileged military-religious orders. Founded in Jerusalem in the early twelfth century to protect pilgrims and defend crusader territory, the Templars grew into a transnational institution of monks, warriors, estate managers, lenders, and papal servants. Their houses stretched across Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. Their secrecy, wealth, discipline, and independence made them admired, useful, and politically difficult to control. After the fall of Acre in twelve ninety-one, the Order’s mili...