These sites offer information about the most famous knightly order and the individuals who guided it.
A concise introduction to the origins, expansion, organization and downfall of the Templars, the warrior monks who defended pilgrims in the Holy Land.
Your Guide's choices for the best books that offer factual historical information about the Templar Knights, the warrior monks of the Crusades.
Your Guide's review of Sharan Newman's informative factual history of the much-misunderstood Knights of the Temple.
A review by your Guide of the handy reference work covering all aspects of the Templar Knights.
Lightly-hyperlinked overview of the order's origins, history and tragic end, well-written by Charles Moeller.
This huge site by Stephen Dafoe includes details of Templar traditions, historical overviews, biographies, chronologies, speculative essays, and much much more. Excellent.
Excellent 19th-century illustration of three Templar Knights of the twelfth or thirteenth century.
Excellent 19th-century illustration of a knight, a prince, and a Templar knight of the thirteenth century.
The ORB's five-chapter excerpt from St. Bernard de Clairvaux's treatise in support of the newly-formed Templar order, translated by Conrad Greenia.
Concise and informative overview by Malcom Barber at the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
A translation by Mrs. Judith Upton-Ward offered at the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
Extensive and intriguing article by Steven Grobschmidt at the ORB compares the religious guidelines of the purely monastic order with the largely military one.
A brief overview of Templar activity in Portugal is hyperlinked to additional pertinent information. Links are also provided to tables about the Portuguese Templar Masters and Templar holdings. Nice effort by Rod Thorn.
