Knights Templar

This name is very familiar to those of us who have seen or just started watching the Dirilis Artugrul series. Who were these Knights Templar? Where do they come from? And my writing today is about how they worked. So let's take a look at the eleventh century -------

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At that time, in the middle of the last decade of the eleventh century, for the first time in the history of the world, the trumpet of the Crusades sounded! On the one hand, the holy city of Jerusalem and the first qibla of the Muslims united on behalf of the Muslims to protect the Aqsa Mosque. The combined forces of Fatimid General Iftekhar Ad-Daula, Sultan Kiliz Arsalan of the Seljuk Sultanate-i Room, and Gazi Gumustakin from the Abbasids.

For the Crusaders, on the other hand, the Empire of France, the Empire of Holy Roman, and the Byzantine Empire formed an ally. But the Allies of the Byzantines and the Crusades invaded the Seljuks and captured Nassia (Eznik), but the governor of Jerusalem succumbed to the pressure. As a result, the Muslim allied forces were defeated by the Christian allies.

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After the defeat of the Muslims in the First Crusade; full control of Jerusalem passed into the hands of the Franks. From then on, Christian pilgrims flocked to Jerusalem to "worship" in the Holy Land. But the robbers became a big problem for these caravans. Because the robbers did not listen to the word of religion, the caravan of pilgrims started a festival of looting in the Middle Ages. Not only that, a large number of pilgrims were killed by the robbers.

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Outraged by the bandits' torture, King Hugois of France took the initiative to form a bodyguard from among the clergy to protect the caravan. His initiative was supported by the then ruler of Jerusalem, Baldwin II, and he arranged for the newly formed bodyguards to use the Masjid al-Aqsa Temple Mount as their first and main headquarters. To match the name of this Temple Mount, they put "Templar" at the end of their organization name! The initial journey of this body of guards, consisting of only 9 warriors, was not an easy one. The Knights were the greatest success of the Templars Battle of Montgomery.

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In 117, with the help of only 500 Knights Templar, 6,000 Crusaders, Sultan Salahuddin Ayub, forced the Sultan to flee by crushing a huge army of 26,000. But it is interesting to note that in the twelfth century, the Knights Templar became embroiled in a feud with the other two clergy, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights, at the instigation of Saladin Ayub's skilled spies weaken their unity. Finally, in 1306, at the behest of King Philip, dozens of Templar Grandmasters were tied to poles and burned alive. Thus ends a "black" chapter of the Templars' nearly 200 years of war and struggle.