In the 200 years of their existance and in the centuries that have elapsed since, much speculation and conjecture has been presented regarding this noble order of white mantled knights.
The Knights Templar were a monastic military order formed at the end of the First Crusade with the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims en route to the Holy Land. Never before had a group of secular knights banded together and
Within two centuries they had become powerful enough to defy all but the Papal throne. Feared as warriors, respected for their charity and sought out for their wealth, there is no doubt that the Templar Knights were the key players of the monastic fighting orders. Due to their vast wealth and surplus of materials the Templars essentially invented banking, as we know it.