In 1307, the Knights Templar, an order of military monks who had achieved great wealth and power, were ordered by the King of France to be arrested for heresy. They were tried and found guilty. Some ...

In Episode 7 of Knightfall Season 2, a trial began regarding the Knights Templar and the charges laid against them by King Philip IV of France (Ed Stoppard). This trial occurred on Friday the 13th, ...

In Ridley Scott’s 2005 epic Kingdom of Heaven, The Knights Templar are portrayed as violent extremists. The film is about a ...

On a tiny island in the Seine River, Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was surrounded by flames when he made his last, terrifying curse. Both Pope Clement V and King ...

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has claimed allegiance to the Knights Templar, which he described as a secret society created to carry out a crusade against Islam in Europe. Several ...

The Knights Templar feature prominently in Dan Brown’s bestseller “The Da Vinci Code” and video game “Assassins Creed,” but now British historian Dan Jones gives them standalone treatment in his new ...

(The Conversation) — Warrior-monks crusaded for Christianity throughout medieval Europe. Adding to the ongoing mystery surrounding the military order is their enigmatic seal. (The Conversation) — The ...

When vigilante militiamen stormed this farming town in western Mexico this month, a killer for the Knights Templar drug cartel pushed out of a house with a bazooka. But with training from ex-soldiers, ...

SEE ALSO: Knights Templar Profile The assault by the federal forces on Lazaro Cardenas appears to be an attempt to strike at the Knights in their economic hub, a move likely inspired by the hope that ...

Grant Thackray alights with an incendiary Sunday puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger A navy officer put in charge of Mexico’s second-largest port in an effort to wrest control of it from a drug gang was shot ...