In 1524 the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano was sent by the French king Francis I to find a shorter route to China. His true mission, Steven Sora suggests, was to contact a Templar colony esta
A major new history of the knights Templar—holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics—by the bestselling author of The PlantagenetsJerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the viol
An instant New York Times bestseller that finally tells the real story of the Knights Templar—“Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” (The Times, Book of the Year
The Templars: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order, offers a wide range of perspectives on this community’s establishment and lasting resonance. Part One explores the order’s rise
In 1099, the city of Jerusalem, a possession of the Islamic caliphate for over four hundred years, fell to an army of Christian knights intent on liberating the city from Islamic rule. From the ranks
The most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages and their sacred treasure.For a certain period in history, the Knights Templar—the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ag
