The Knights Templar Are Hiding In Plain Sight

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• RY

  @ryeofthebeholder · 4 years ago

  I think one of the main reasons the Knights Templar are still well known is because the name is cool as hell.

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• CO

  @coltonbarnes7861 · 2 months ago

  why am i feeling this sudden urge to crusade for the holy land?

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• RU

  @ruicorreia6373 · 4 years ago

  Fun fact:<br>As the video says, the templars fled to Portugal to form a new order, members of that order where present in pretty much every big moment of Portugal&apos;s age of exploration.<br>The Order of Christ, still exists today as one of the honorary commendations the portuguese republic can give. The president is seen many times with a red and green ribbon in formal events, people think these colors represent the national colors, but they are actually representing the Order of Christ (red) and the Order of Avis (green) of which the president of Portugal is the grandmaster, as soon as he/she takes office.<br><br>So Ubisoft, if you ever want a really cool Assassin&apos;s Creed, you know where to do it.

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• JE

  @jesj.guerra · 1 year ago

  WE NEED THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR NOW MORE THAN EVER...

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• TO

  @tobins6800 · 4 years ago

  One thing that was left out. The order to disband the Templars was issued on Friday the 13th. Thus making that day unlucky forever.

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• GO

  @GoncaloFerreira · 1 year ago (edited)

  Here in Portugal we honor all our ancestors, not only the majority of them (celtic and lusitanians), but also knights templars.We even sell souvenirs of knights templars to tourists. We Portuguese owe them for becoming part of us, and their memory will never fade away. Who knows if you watch a Portuguese and he is in fact descendant from a knight templar? Yes, they could have had children.

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• MA

  @martiuscastle · 4 years ago

  That cross was on the sails of the first ships to arrive in Brazil, and gave the later its first name: Land of the Holy Cross. The cross is to this day engraved in the founding stone the portuguese left at that occasion. One of the reasons we (Brazilians) call our country &quot;The last crusade&quot;.

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• DR

  @dreadpiratemikey6400 · 1 year ago

  Ya, hiding in Switzerland. The Templars lose Acre in 1291. Switzerland is founded in 1291. Suddenly a small group of farmers in the Alps become a military and commerce power in a matter of years? &nbsp;Most of the Templars were French and most of them escaped the French king&apos;s purge. They didn&apos;t disappear into thin air. Seems likely a bunch of them ended up in the Alps.

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• DR

  @drewskij2175 · 3 years ago

  There&apos;s more interesting aspects of the Temple Knights, eating habits, their daily routines and their absolute love for their horses. You&apos;d be hard pressed to find a military order that took better care of their mind, bodies, weaponry, armor and the horses they took into battle throughout history. Were they perfect no but extremely interesting to say the least.

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• TO

  @tommywilliams9414 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Amazing that despite them being disbanded it’s still a household name even in the 21st century.<br>Interesting though the Papal Inquisition, Hospitaller Knights and Knights of Malta still exist.

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• RA

  @RazorBucks · 9 months ago

  England needs the Knight’s Templar right now.

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• JO

  @johnthomas-uy4tw · 9 months ago

  Large numbers of the temple knights are needed now.

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