
Knights Templar
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Role | Christian |
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Shock troops | |
Founded | Jerusalem |
Israel | |
Motto | Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomini tuo da gloriam; (English: Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name give glory) |
Headquarters | Jerusalem |
Israel | |
Size | 15,000–20,000 members at peak, 10% of whom were knights |
Founders | Hugues de Payens |
Godfrey de Saint-Omer | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1017124 |
About Knights Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar or simply the Templars, were a Catholic military order recognised in 1139 by the papal bull Omne datum optimum.