The Knights Templar, a legendary monastic military order ... the order fused two defining institutions of the early Middle Ages: the mounted knight and the pious monk. At the time, this made ...

Knights of the SMOTJ wear the red cross pattée, believed to have been first used by the Knights Templar in 1147 ... Two dozen or so Templars—mostly middle-aged guys—are killing beers and ...

Looks at the engineering of the Knights Templar, the religious order that marked the rise of the Middle Ages, and their amazing buildings in the west of Europe.