donotcomplyguy.substack.com By The Do Not Comply Guy
In July 1099, Muslim control of Jerusalem came to a violent end when the city fell to the Crusader armies. In the three days following its capture, the Crusaders carried out a horrific massacre, slaughtering Muslims and Jews and desecrating their sacred sites. After this conquest, the Crusaders established the “Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem”, a Christian Crusader state.
With Jerusalem now in Christian hands, pilgrimages to the city surged dramatically, drawing Christians from across Europe to the Holy Land. By 1118, a French knight named Hugues de Payens, along with eight fellow knights, approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem seeking permission to form a religious order dedicated to protecting Christian pilgrims traveling through these dangerous lands (or so they said).
They became known as the “Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon”. But history remembers them by the name they became famous for, the Knights Templar. King Baldwin granted their request and allowed them to establish their headquarters on the Temple Mount, a site long associated with the ruins of Solomon’s Temple…
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