Knights Templar: The Rise And Fall Of The Mysterious Warrior Monks | Knights Templar | Time Team

The Templar Knights were a mysterious group of warrior monks with links to the Holy Grail and the Temple of Solomon. This brotherhood vowed to band together and protect the most coveted religious relics from the dawn of Christianity.

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[WickedFelina]

This has nothing or very little to do with the Knights Templar who were originally honest monks called the "Poor Soldiers of Christ" who became the Order of Solomon's Temple. Later the Knights Templar. The monks opened up the Order to lay people who held wealth and property. Upon entering they gave up their lands and possessions. In turn, the Knights used the money for campaigns into the Holy Land. They developed the 1st banking system (the forerunner of the Swiss Bank). A pilgrim to the Holy Land would put their money into a Templar bank at home, with no fear of being robbed (which is one of the reasons the Templars went on crusade) having no money, would bring a note from the Templars at home then, withdraw it in the Holy Land.

There are thousands of documents by the Templars containing vows, real estate purchases, business acquisitions all for the sake of the crusades.

The Templars' unfortunate end came from not paganism, or some alternate form or Christianity but the overspending of the King of France. He could no longer pay them, deeply in debt to many, he was informed of the Templars' true wealth, went to the Pope, who 1st refused dissolving the Order but with pressure, relented. ALL the charges were made out of whole cloth (complete fabrication).

The Merovingian Dynasty were simply human, not Divine, not descended from Jesus at all. We have the entire family tree as well as a complete DNA sequence taken from a Merovingian Queen's big toe. This is nothing but DaVinci Code Mark III (since there was a (Mark II), and a bit of Zeitgeist thrown in for effect.

Sorry, I have studied and researched a lot of history in my time!

It is a fun show however! We like fantasy and fairytales!

[tuomasronnberg]

This went from zero to sixty in really short time :D
>first half: legit history
>second half: wildest non-stop occultist speculation known to man

[charlessteele]

All this serpent stuff strikes me as hisssterical and hissstrionic.

[meyou]

This was interesting...but i have no idea what he's going on about....I thought this was supposed to be about the history of the templars

[theaestheticcactus]

You piqued my interest with the potential for a documentary on the templars what I got was less than ten minutes of history and almost a whole 50 minutes of conspiracy theory driven, pseudo-historical, History channel worthy garbage

[jacquelinepayne]

The driving anxiety in the musical score and the relentless commentary with innumerable loosely integrated facts leaves even the most avid listener lost in the verbiage.

[ahar]

Hardly a documentary...some facts surrounded by a web of speculation...and downright insanity

[SpittinSquirell]

46 minutes into this and besides the very beginning I have not heard one thing about the Templars. Plus the constant stringing of ideas reminds me of Zeitgeist

[tsarcastic]

Cool documentary on schizophrenia, really gives a 7 dimensional, abstruse mino-king-child sun radiant perspective.

[jh]

Had very little to do with the Knights Templars. Was very very disappointed in it. Definitely it not worth watching again or even for the 1st time watching.

[boredboy]

hahaha this is the documentary version of that always sunny meme. Came to watch an actual documentary on the Templars based in some approximation of historical fact. Still it was a very fun story with some interesting notes about European (and beyond) religious history. Still a fuckload of citation needed here.

[vvcv__]

Chronicle, if you give me more absurdities, such as this, I'm leaving you forever!

[intotheetherambientmusic]

Definitely one of my favourite parts of history to learn about. Always up for a documentary on the Knights Templar.

[ravenhill_theAnglo-celt-]

for anyone who wants to know more about the knights Templar, read 'legends of the knights Templar' by A.A. Grishin.

[WickedFelina]

"Time Team" is a specific long running series in the UK. This is not affiliated with them. It is clickbaity. It is like putting a sign outside your home reading "McDonald's" inside there are 4 pinball machines and 2 chimps screeching wildly, while thrashing out blindly for fear of the bells.

I guarantee, there is no burger or, side of fries for you today.

[stalecoolranchdoritos]

this documentary was a wild ride for the whole hour...I've never watched even a YouTube Poop with a more disparate story and confusing timeline, but just as entertaining! Loved it!

[stasianatanasov]

9:00 old man twerking in the background got me acting up

[hugovanelsen]

The cross shown in the beginning is a malteser cross and it was not the signia of the Templars but of the order of Saint John

[oldmanfromscenetwentyfour]

Dragon in the Chalice? NO! The Flagon with the Dragon has the pellet with the poison, the Chalice from the Palace has the brew that is True!

[elainesmith]

I mean, it's not the best put together video ever, but I did have a bit of a giggle at " huge tracts of land" 😅👍