Download or read book The Knights Templar written by Robin Griffith-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining historical guide to the legendary and mysterious order of medieval warrior knights who have been associated with everything from freemasonry to the Holy Grail, and the Shroud of Turin. This authoritative guide includes the medieval legends of the templars in romantic and epic literature, their doomed Crusades and dominance in Christendom, their fall from grace and disbandment by the Pope, while also reporting on this surviving sect’s secretive and unusual activities today.