The medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem emerged during one of the most dramatic and complicated periods in Christian history. Born from the First Crusade, it became a place where faith, political ambition, military necessity, pilgrimage, and competing cultures met. Its history is inseparably connected to the Crusades, several kings named Baldwin, and the rise of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon—better known as the Knights Templar. The First Crusade an

More than seven centuries after the medieval Knights Templar were suppressed, their name continues to appear in books, films, churches, fraternal organizations, military traditions, and popular culture. Few medieval institutions have left such a powerful legacy in the modern imagination. The historical Knights Templar existed for roughly two centuries, beginning in the early 12th century. They were created during the Crusading era as a Christian military religious order, orig

Friday the 13th of October, 1307 A day that King Philip IV "The Fair" of France arrested all of the Templar Knights. The date on which...