The Knights Templar

Endnotes

1

 Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Jonathan Cape, 1982), p.51.

2

Genesis 22:12–18.

3

Daniel, ‘The Life and Journey of Daniel’, in Jerusalem Pilgrimage, ed. J.Wilkinson, Hakluyt Society 167 (London, 1988). Quoted in Barber, The New Knighthood (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p.3.

4

Daniel, ibid. Quoted in Barber, op. cit., p.6.

5

St Bernard, from a letter to Pope Calixtus II, 1124/5. Quoted in Barber, op. cit., p.13.

6

All of these knights were among the original nine members. According to Barber (op. cit., p.12), King Baldwin had already sent two of the original nine Templars, Andre de Montbard and Gondemar, to France for Church approval of the Order.This would leave only the unknown ninth member (Hugh of Champagne?) in Outremer, reinforcing the theory that the Templars – in order to be taken seriously by Baldwin II, the Pope and the Council of Troyes – had to be more than nine knights strong by 1129.

7

Guigo, Lettres des Premiers Chartreux, Sources Chretiennes 88, Paris 1988. Quoted in Barber, op. cit., p.49.

8

Barber, op. cit., p.42.

9

Quoted in Read, The Templars (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1999), p.119.

10

Barber, op. cit., p.230.

11

R.C. Smail, Crusading Warfare, 1097–1193 (Cambridge, 1995), p.43.

12

Theodericus, ch.17, pp.26–7 in Jerusalem Pilgrimage, pp.293–4; quoted in Barber, op. cit. pp.90–93.

13

Genesis 32:24–29.

14

Read, op. cit., p.155.

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