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View Traces of the Knights Templar in The Netherlands in a larger map

Source: Sporen van de Tempelieren in Nederland - http://www.tempelieren.nl - © Ben Brus 2003-2012

Traces of the Knights Templar in Belgium and Luxemburg - show a bigger map

source: Jan Hosten 2006: De tempeliers - de tempelorde tijdens de kruistochten en in de Lage Landen" (in Dutch, translation title: The Knights Templar - the Order of the Temple during the crusades and in the Low Lands); ISBN-13 978-90-430-1061-0; Publ Pearson Education Benelux, Amsterdam

Knight Templar Commanderies in Europe ca 1300 source

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Commanderies in France - screen print from www.templiers.org

Principal commanderies in Aragaon, North-East Spain source

Commanderies of the Johanniter Order 1300 source

Commanderies of several Knights Orders in Switserland source

Jerusalem AD 958-1052, according to the Arab geographers; from from Palestine Under the Muslims: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from AD 650 to 1500, by Guy Le Strange, London 1890, in Wikipedia

France 1154

Templar Key Information

The Rule of St Benedict c. 500 CE, starting point for the rule of the Cistercian Order, which was the monastic mother of the Order of the Knights Templar
Charta Caritatis c. 1119 CE, rule of the Cistercian Order, originally written by Stephan Harding, abbot of the first Cistercian Abbey at Citeaux, France
Primitive Rule of the Knights Templar c. 1129 CE, by Bernard de Clairvaux, abbot of the Cistercian Clairvaux Abbey, France, presented by him at the Council of Troyes, and accepted there after which the Order was officially endorsed by the Church.
In Praise of the New Knighthood c. 1136 CE, by Bernard de Clairvaux, in support of the juvenile Order of the Knights Templar

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