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 ...

701 years ago, on March 18th, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was burned at the stake in France. As he died, Jacques de Molay cursed the French king who had betrayed him, and whose own ...

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, ...

The Vatican has published secret documents about the trial of the Knights Templar, including a parchment — long ignored because of a vague catalog entry in 1628 — showing that Pope Clement V initially ...

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 ...

When the origins of your fraternal organization date back 900 years, questions about how your members spend time in the 21st century are bound to arise. Stephen Whitmore, the “Right Eminent Grand ...

Few societies of yore have the historical resonance of the Knights Templar. The subject of countless novels, fiction, documentaries and myths, the Poor Knights of the Temple of King Solomon, as they ...

It’s the first time since 2015 that the combination of the day and date associated with bad luck has recurred three times in a calendar year. By Sopan Deb Grant Thackray alights with an incendiary ...

Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold. (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing stories that ...

Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold. (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing stories that ...