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Sep 25, 2023 · Tellingly, the new justiciar was also the son of a Templar knight, the devout Templar military commander Gilbert of Lacy. Perhaps not surprisingly under these circumstances, the Templars had a key part to play in Henry’s ‘pacification and modernisation’ programme in Ireland.
Nov 27, 2010 · Ireland first say Knights Templar when they arrived with the invading Anglo-Norman armies. The Templars were closely aligned to the Norman and then Plantagenet rulers of England. They were bankers and advisers to the English kings.
In this podcast I interview Maeve Callan, an expert on the history of the Templars in Ireland. Maeve details this intriguing story from their first arrival in the early 12th century through to their dramatic and sensational downfall in the early 14th century.
The Knights Templar were an armed religious order established in 1118 during the Crusades to aid and protect pilgrims making their way to the Holy Land. They had a considerable presence in Ireland and at one stage were the owners of Clontarf Castle.
It does not appear that the Templars of Ireland were as hardly dealt with as those on the Continent; perhaps their conduct was not so flagrant: they had fought and bled in defence of the English power in this country; for in the year 1274, William Fitz Roger, the prior of Kilmainham, was taken prisoner with several others, by the Irish at ...
The initiation ceremony and the ritual of the High Knight Templar and Malta Degrees reflect aspects of the formation and subsequent history of both original Orders from the time of the capture of Jerusalem by the Christians of the First Crusade in 1099.
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The history of the Knights Templar, a medieval order of warrior monks, is shrouded in myth and conspiracy. In this exclusive episode I interview Maeve Callan on the history of the Knights Templar in Ireland.
