Top 10 FASCINATING Facts About the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024

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  • @G82M4Comptish
    @G82M4Comptish 7 лет назад +476

    Templars the original special force.

  • @hackermangage1703
    @hackermangage1703 7 лет назад +532

    FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD
    FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY
    FOR THE FAITH, FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD
    GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY

    • @bnbcraft6666
      @bnbcraft6666 7 лет назад +6

      Gage rynders sabaton

    • @dFON
      @dFON 7 лет назад +29

      This song is for the Swiss Guard....

    • @vuxigeck5281
      @vuxigeck5281 7 лет назад +2

      DEUS VULT DOKTORDEL!

    • @hackermangage1703
      @hackermangage1703 7 лет назад +1

      Doktor von Pig I know but to anyone else it would would like a song for the crusades

    • @franciscogaray2530
      @franciscogaray2530 7 лет назад +4

      This music isn't about the crusades or the templars. It's about the sack of rome in 1527

  • @Ray-yv7kn
    @Ray-yv7kn 7 лет назад +140

    The real thing is, those Knights were the good guys

    • @kollinlorenzo3287
      @kollinlorenzo3287 4 года назад +18

      the real assassins were the bad guys

    • @applescruff1969
      @applescruff1969 3 года назад +16

      @@kollinlorenzo3287 Pretty much. The real assassins were little more than criminals.

    • @matthewblair6763
      @matthewblair6763 3 года назад

      That’s what both sides thought

    • @ReaverofSouls7
      @ReaverofSouls7 3 года назад +5

      @Sway Guevara Prince Philip was a liar and a thief. He inherited a broke country thanks to his idiot father who spent all of Frankia's wealth. The Templars ran the first banking system. After having the pope excommunicated and got his childhood friend named the next pope. The two of them decided to steal the money the Templars had by declaring them heretics.

    • @davidwayne9982
      @davidwayne9982 3 года назад +3

      EXACTLY-- and the other TRASH out about them is just that TRASH- put out by the POOP and his FRENCH KING buddy that OWED them a fortune he couldn't pay back.

  • @FarCritical
    @FarCritical 7 лет назад +576

    *D E U S V U L T*

    • @McLovinMods
      @McLovinMods 7 лет назад +2

      FarCritical
      ??? I've seen three people post that. What is it a reference to?

    • @McLovinMods
      @McLovinMods 7 лет назад +1

      MrAcrobot​ yeah I meant contextually LOL

    • @dlowfrm305
      @dlowfrm305 5 лет назад +6

      *D E U S V U L T*

    • @alteredbeast7145
      @alteredbeast7145 5 лет назад +1

      @@McLovinMods its like "allahu akbar" for nazis

    • @deafanddestructiononthepis3149
      @deafanddestructiononthepis3149 5 лет назад

      @@alteredbeast7145 Some say Templars began in Aztlan

  • @Jinseual
    @Jinseual 7 лет назад +226

    The Knights Templars role was to protect Christian lands from Saracen bandits and raiders. They often had to fight against larger Muslim armies that were trying to destroy the small Kingdom of Jerusalem for 200 years. It's amazing how the Western Christians were able to hold that territory for so long despite the odds. Too bad their reputation has been slandered by films like Kingdom of Heaven when in fact Muslims were often very cruel and brutal to unarmed Christians and Muslims back on those days.

    • @kanejarrett1671
      @kanejarrett1671 7 лет назад +7

      And still to this day.

    • @zelenplav1701
      @zelenplav1701 7 лет назад +3

      Jinseual. Who were the invaders? The Templars.

    • @hazardous0887
      @hazardous0887 6 лет назад +31

      Mohamad A Rahman
      Says the Muslim ....

    • @clickbait5267
      @clickbait5267 6 лет назад +3

      Jinseual Watch Knighthfall on Netflix

    • @arlynmanning9505
      @arlynmanning9505 6 лет назад +5

      Back in those days? Many still are they havent changed much. They have been violent since the begining and people who say they are a religion of peace are fooling themselves. Now that being said there are amazing muslims who do want peace and are being preyed on by their radical counter parts. Those are the people we need to protect.

  • @Kruziik
    @Kruziik 6 лет назад +123

    So Friday the 13th back then was like a real life Order 66?

    • @joeschook792
      @joeschook792 4 года назад

      Essentially yes

    • @jessiepayne9217
      @jessiepayne9217 4 года назад +1

      Finally someone got the parallel to the jedi!!!

    • @AnthonySforza
      @AnthonySforza 4 года назад

      I think the real-life "Order 66" would be... Actually, the name currently eludes me, but there was a Roman Emperor whose father died and he had generals across the Empire taking out his siblings, so that he could become Emperor. Generals who served under said sibling, mind you.
      EDIT: Constantius II
      His father, Emperor Constantine had two brothers, nine nephews, and three sons. Basically, Constantius ordered the deaths of his two uncles and all six adult cousins. With the exception of only himself, his two brothers, and his three child-age cousins. Within months, all of them had been eliminated.

    • @ultramarinescaptain3840
      @ultramarinescaptain3840 4 года назад

      Yes.

    • @graysonallen5410
      @graysonallen5410 3 года назад

      THATS WHAT ORDER 66 IS BASED OFF OF

  • @ganderstein3426
    @ganderstein3426 7 лет назад +123

    It's nice to see an honest video, not vilifying these men that devoted their lives to God.
    The crooked pope and king feared these men, that's why they betrayed them.

    • @travishimebaugh8381
      @travishimebaugh8381 7 лет назад +11

      Well... we probably shouldn't put them too high on a pedestal. They were probably as money- and power- hungry as any other faction in Europe at that time, and charged usury at a time when it was considered very unChristian to do so. It's speculated that part of the reason King Philip was so paranoid about them is because he thought they might seize power to form their own nation, just as their brother order the Teutonic Knights did with Prussia.

    • @lindaclark9925
      @lindaclark9925 5 лет назад

      Yes that putz King Phillip ...

  • @henritparattil1320
    @henritparattil1320 7 лет назад +59

    finally some people who appreciate Real heroes.
    if they still exist ,,I would gladly join them.

    • @supamanzthedumbasssez2782
      @supamanzthedumbasssez2782 6 лет назад +4

      sabbeee MC .. Christianity is the 2nd largest religion in India.. educate urself racist!!

    • @GrimdarkCrusader20th
      @GrimdarkCrusader20th 5 лет назад +2

      the freemasons are the closest equivalents and help people they also openly recruit

    • @GrimdarkCrusader20th
      @GrimdarkCrusader20th 5 лет назад +3

      @Maggot Mike after a large majority of Templars fled france to avoid execution they went to Portugal to form the order of christ & if the Oak island legend is true they also went to scotland to form the Masonic order as well as that island to store what they found also during the french revolution after the king was beheaded a freemason dipped what was believed to be a Templar mantle in the blood and said "jacques de molay" you are avenged as the king was a descendant of phillip the fair who was the one who ordered the Templars execution because he was in huge debt with them so he had them confess to false crimes which led to the grandmaster at the time, Jacques de Molay being burned at the stake and after that the pope disbanded the Templar order but while he was being burned de Molay cursed the king of France who later died of a heart attack while he was hunting within a year of the grandmaster's death the pope also died in that timespan

    • @DrBeak-gl2np
      @DrBeak-gl2np 3 года назад +3

      The Order of Christ is the only remnant of the Templars. I wish they would expand their influence and take back Europe and the Holy Land. Terrorists feel that they can control us but no. The Templars will rise again and soon, we will lay witness to thousands of them riding to the Holy Land.

    • @toxicequinox4749
      @toxicequinox4749 3 года назад

      @@DrBeak-gl2np this time with crusader tanks and Heavy metal bands playing christ in combat and the like

  • @shoddycast1455
    @shoddycast1455 7 лет назад +423

    wow not alot of anti Christian stuff proud of you RUclips you grow up

    • @shoddycast1455
      @shoddycast1455 7 лет назад +29

      ***** yeah u got alot of fake christains out there who forgot the real purpose of are faith

    • @shoddycast1455
      @shoddycast1455 7 лет назад +2

      Sean McVan calm down kid

    • @flankymerc1405
      @flankymerc1405 7 лет назад +15

      for the most part ? we are the only people of the world who preach peace and not peace through violence

    • @systempatcher
      @systempatcher 7 лет назад +5

      Hail Satan my dark Lord and master.

    • @flankymerc1405
      @flankymerc1405 7 лет назад +7

      lynn Lew facts christnas dont blow themself up and dont control the banks that inflate and control market that kills people that`s jews and muslims

  • @Beanbag777
    @Beanbag777 7 лет назад +26

    Excellent, truthful , historically accurate , respectful and void of conspiracy theories . Great video

    • @jaydenp1747
      @jaydenp1747 5 лет назад

      Ummm not completely but okay 👌

  • @OrthodoxLegion907
    @OrthodoxLegion907 7 лет назад +427

    Hail Templars!!May God guide us!!!

  • @VileScarMind
    @VileScarMind 7 лет назад +41

    Templars were allowed to retreat from battle if they were outnumbered 3 to 1 or more.
    They were not allowed to ask for quarter but were required to grant it if asked.

  • @jadon3597
    @jadon3597 7 лет назад +431

    Time for a tenth crusade

  • @ramonbonilla-reyes323
    @ramonbonilla-reyes323 7 лет назад +150

    now people get offended for saying there's only two genders.

    • @schweather2767
      @schweather2767 4 года назад +17

      Ramon Bonilla-Reyes sad how far we’ve drawn back huh?

    • @ReegusReever
      @ReegusReever 3 года назад +6

      Wouldn't you be offended if someone told you your gender isn't real?
      Another dafty that doesn't know the difference between gender and sex.

    • @neuro3009
      @neuro3009 3 года назад +2

      I'm not homophobic or anything and it's cool and I get it until some one is gay and or lesbian or bi but i don't understand it when you need to transform your sexuality to another gender (medically) isn't that too much. If I'm wrong enlighten me, educate me) ty

    • @aceraphael847
      @aceraphael847 3 года назад +5

      @@ReegusReever Can I tell you a secret, feelings lie all the time...labelling yourself based on your feelings is the stupidest thing. There are only 2 genders..the rest are just personality traits.

    • @ReegusReever
      @ReegusReever 3 года назад +2

      @@aceraphael847 Make that two, folks. ^

  • @razgriz821
    @razgriz821 7 лет назад +392

    time to play crusader kings 2 again and invade france..

    • @the_diplomat51
      @the_diplomat51 7 лет назад +29

      razgriz821 Avenge our Order, my fellow brother!

    • @AskiFin
      @AskiFin 7 лет назад +5

      +Avernal79
      I'll see you in my Blót, heathen.

    • @Olter_
      @Olter_ 7 лет назад +4

      razgriz821 DEUS VULT!

    • @7macfly2
      @7macfly2 7 лет назад +9

      razgriz821 templar came from France 😝

    • @AskiFin
      @AskiFin 7 лет назад +4

      7macfly2 Actually false, it was just French king that turned against them first. Nothing else is inherently "French" about them. Nor any nation as a matter of fact.

  • @laidbackThunderLord
    @laidbackThunderLord 7 лет назад +235

    They seem to have a lot in common with the Jedi order. Looks like George Lucas got some ideas from real history.

    • @SteelTyrant527
      @SteelTyrant527 6 лет назад +24

      dont forget the samurai and their die hard beliefs

    • @bernisweltredsun1245
      @bernisweltredsun1245 5 лет назад +9

      fun fact: the knights templar were indeed an inspiration for the jedi.

    • @martinpearse2003
      @martinpearse2003 4 года назад +11

      Well..."jedi Knight" sorta gives it away a bit

    • @piedpiper4588
      @piedpiper4588 4 года назад

      @@martinpearse2003 Nope

    • @jessiepayne9217
      @jessiepayne9217 4 года назад

      @@bernisweltredsun1245 i said the same thing

  • @RickMitchellProvenanceAndRoots
    @RickMitchellProvenanceAndRoots 7 лет назад +7

    Love how each item of this list led into the next.
    Good work!

  • @CaptainHaddocck
    @CaptainHaddocck 7 лет назад +591

    TopTenz, thanks for not making an anti christian video out of this. it is really popular in these days unfortunately

    • @shinobibobby7138
      @shinobibobby7138 7 лет назад +8

      top ten facts of the crusades?

    • @shoddycast1455
      @shoddycast1455 7 лет назад +3

      Captain Haddock yep sad

    • @raphaelalexandreyensen6291
      @raphaelalexandreyensen6291 7 лет назад +14

      I have a complaint Number 5 is wrong, Not arrested, executed by being burned at the stake. at the stake in front of Notre dame including the grand master Jacques de Molay who as he burned at the stake said that the king of France and the pope (who sold him out after being blackmailed by the french king) would meet him in heaven with-in a year, thing is the pope got sick and died and the french king died in a hunting accident within a year or they were assassinated if you like conspiracy theory's. It's hard to tell.

    • @shoddycast1455
      @shoddycast1455 7 лет назад +7

      ***** there was only cathloics and Greek orthodox

    • @kevinshamrok
      @kevinshamrok 7 лет назад +4

      protestants seem to have are time understanding what "christian" means

  • @HolyknightVader999
    @HolyknightVader999 7 лет назад +70

    Most Templars survived outside of France by just joining other Knightly orders like the Hospitallers or the Teutonic Knights.

    • @MedievalSolutions
      @MedievalSolutions 7 лет назад +4

      But the order itself was effectively destroyyed and torn apart.

    • @alexpt1527
      @alexpt1527 7 лет назад +10

      The Grim POMMELER Like I commented before:
      " Portugal was the only country in Europe, that did not burn Templars.
      Templars existed in Portugal since the 1120's, but later on, in 1319, the Portuguese created the military "Order of Christ" (also called Christ's Knights Order) that was basically the former Knights Templar order but in Portugal with a different name and with the protection of the Portuguese King, after they were abolished in 1312 by the Pope.
      All the Templars who managed to survive their mass slaughter, came to Portugal and revived the order that would last at least 500 years more.
      From this point on, the Portuguese Empire relied heavily on the Templars during the Age of Discoveries who accumulated great riches and power.
      All the Portuguese ships during this time had the Templars/Order of Christ Cross on their sails.
      Portugal was a country who was basically established by Templars and that had a lot of experience fighting Islam and spreading Christianity from all of the years of "Reconquista" in the Iberian Peninsula and the Crusades in North of Africa and Asia.
      In the Reconquista, the first King of Portugal D. Afonso Henriques and his army with the aid of the Knights Templar, defeated the 5 Muslim Kings. The King itself, was brought up as a Templar when he was a kid. Legend states that Christ appeared before Afonso giving him and his men the strength to win against the Moors.
      Curious fact: 2 of the original 11 Templar Knights (not 9), were Portuguese.
      Portugal for me, is the perfect and true home of the Order of Templars."

    • @alexpt1527
      @alexpt1527 7 лет назад

      The Grim POMMELER nope.

    • @HolyknightVader999
      @HolyknightVader999 4 года назад +1

      @@alexpt1527 Switzerland also welcomed them. Why do you think the Swiss are excellent bankers with a red flag and a white cross?

    • @allansbullet
      @allansbullet 4 года назад +1

      @@HolyknightVader999 The flag of Switzerland is a RED FLAG WITH A WHITE CROSS!! Stupid comment!!

  • @tomdewald1552
    @tomdewald1552 4 года назад +1

    Been following you lately with delight and intrigue. Your cadence, clever wit, sarcasm and dare I say, accent are very easy on the ears. I dig how you segued each bit into the dialogue, vs random facts counted down. More of a complete story I suppose. Love your work. Thank you and keep it up.

  • @verdeboyo
    @verdeboyo 3 года назад +10

    I can never get enough about the Templars/Crusades/medieval times. Very sad how the Vatican turned against them all and kept their plundered riches. Thank you for this video

    • @SnoopReddogg
      @SnoopReddogg 2 года назад

      The Vatican has form on that.

    • @GoddessBlessYou
      @GoddessBlessYou Год назад

      Don't know what your beliefs are, but many people would argue that you were one of them in a past life.

  • @the_diplomat51
    @the_diplomat51 7 лет назад +9

    Simon actually posted this on the day the Order was found. Well timed, good sir!

  • @andrewgodly5739
    @andrewgodly5739 7 лет назад +11

    So Templar knights were really the only respectable knights of the medieval age. They actually could die as the Muslims didn't care for European rules. As in Europe it was against the law to kill a knight if you were below their status. They also devoutly followed what they believe and gave up all their wealth for it. To bad the crusades is shrouded with controversy as the Templar knights seemed to be the most charitable of nobility. Although, some of them may have joined just to quench their blood-thirst or Muslim prejudices

    • @kanejarrett1671
      @kanejarrett1671 7 лет назад +3

      I don't see what the controversy is, Islam has no claim to Jerusalem.

  • @MarcusQuintusTitus
    @MarcusQuintusTitus 7 лет назад +13

    It'd be nice to see one on the Teutons and the Hospitaliers as well.

  • @spacebory
    @spacebory 5 лет назад +4

    Assassins creed fan here

  • @rogeliomorales331
    @rogeliomorales331 7 лет назад +29

    thank you I really needed this for my history project (:

    • @leonwp60
      @leonwp60 7 лет назад +1

      Rogelio Morales for your history project my grand mothers family name was Morales (from Tarragona, Spain)

    • @rogeliomorales331
      @rogeliomorales331 7 лет назад

      Leon WP thank you really appreciate it (:

    • @550Benz
      @550Benz 7 лет назад +1

      Rogelio Morales no one cares

    • @probablypublic1596
      @probablypublic1596 7 лет назад +8

      Im sure the uploader cares, do you know that nice feeling when you helped someone out?

    • @leonwp60
      @leonwp60 7 лет назад +2

      Yeah i care that Rogelio knows something of his family origin that he didnt before, seasons greetings to all.

  • @nicolobarrera9390
    @nicolobarrera9390 7 лет назад +231

    WE MUST RECLAIM JERUSALEM

    • @magnuscoles5010
      @magnuscoles5010 7 лет назад +5

      xX_SHOTGUNNY _Xx Jerusalem is already in your hands

    • @milesgregory8442
      @milesgregory8442 7 лет назад +9

      Yeah the Zionist set up the State of Israel which is pretty much in the west' pocket.

    • @tlrjon6375
      @tlrjon6375 7 лет назад +9

      so are you trying to renew the order, create an order, talking to the pope or just being part of youtubes army of pep talkers who don't do it. People LIVE there. AND have died there while being Christian AND Arabic. Thousands of CHRISTIAN arabs were killed by both Seljuks, European Lords (who nobody really ever blames *cough* *cough*), followed up by the Mongols. How bout we give the Levant a break??

    • @HVH777
      @HVH777 7 лет назад +2

      Read albert pikes letters. Ww3 will be a religious war.

    • @Snoopy16mh
      @Snoopy16mh 7 лет назад +12

      The Zionist Jews or any Jews are NOT Israelites!

  • @NinjaKuma
    @NinjaKuma 7 лет назад +224

    A few escaped, spent their time underground to consolidate their resources and eventually formed brotherhood and coorporations, Abstergo being the largest, and eventually taking over the world.

    • @maddtaggz
      @maddtaggz 7 лет назад

      Ninja Kuma - Let's Plays, Reactions, Parodies i see what you did there

    • @Burning_Alive
      @Burning_Alive 7 лет назад +3

      Ninja Kuma - Let's Plays, Reactions, Meme's I'm not a big fan of assassins creeds story so no this is not funny

    • @jefferygory9852
      @jefferygory9852 7 лет назад

      Hey s

    • @travishimebaugh8381
      @travishimebaugh8381 7 лет назад +1

      No, they became the International Money Council from Don Rosa's Scrooge McDuck comics

    • @leaveme3559
      @leaveme3559 6 лет назад

      Illuminati....?

  • @Al-hm7oc
    @Al-hm7oc 7 лет назад +42

    10
    "They basically invented Banks"
    Mesopotamia: ...
    Greece: ...
    Egypt: ...
    Rome: ....
    India: ...
    China: .....

    • @griexdast
      @griexdast 7 лет назад +17

      formal bank systems. maybe u should check your ear... on second though... yeah i need to check my ear too, since the word invented tick me off too..... he is talking bout the first formal banking system being recognize internationally. maybe we can say that the modern style of banking system coming from them... mortgage, an innovative check, etc. Which making them richer like modern bank nowadays.

  • @thaddeussampsel7357
    @thaddeussampsel7357 7 лет назад +377

    Assassins creed ruining the name of the templars lol
    btw whats the movie name at number 8?

    • @the_diplomat51
      @the_diplomat51 7 лет назад +10

      Thaddeus Sampsel Its Arn The Knight Templar. There is one here on youtube, thankfully

    • @bates-re9kd
      @bates-re9kd 7 лет назад +6

      Have you ever played any assassins creed game you dipshit ?

    • @the_diplomat51
      @the_diplomat51 7 лет назад +97

      DORK Assassin's Creed is enjoyable, but if you consider that game as your basis of history, consider yourself delusional...
      The man's right, AC ruined the true image of Templars, further worsening the constant usage of them as villains...

    • @NeoShineLP
      @NeoShineLP 7 лет назад +37

      Avernal79 They also want peace but believe that humanity just simply cant achieve that so they want full power with th eden piece and control humanity for peace in AC. The Assassins also want peace but in another way thats why they fight. IRL the Assassins were the real villains. A bit like an ancient ISIS.

    • @bates-re9kd
      @bates-re9kd 7 лет назад

      NeoShineLP definietly !

  • @southmancanham3275
    @southmancanham3275 7 лет назад +19

    Yyyyyyeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

  • @TheGolfdaily
    @TheGolfdaily 7 лет назад +165

    MERRY CHRISTMAS Everybody!
    (and screw those who says; Happy Holidays)

    • @SungeTong
      @SungeTong 7 лет назад +5

      TheGolfdaily and Xmas

    • @probablypublic1596
      @probablypublic1596 7 лет назад +7

      XMAS > Happy Holidays. In xmas the x stands for christ.

    • @shmuelp4504
      @shmuelp4504 7 лет назад +5

      TheGolfdaily, Why screw us? We don't know which holiday you celebrate, but since you do Merry Christmas! :) Shalom!

    • @TheGolfdaily
      @TheGolfdaily 7 лет назад +2

      Sergei Peptoddov
      You can Shalom me as much as you want buddy. I have no reasons to be offended.

    • @jakew520
      @jakew520 7 лет назад +3

      TheGolfdaily Nobody cares what annoys you e-loser

  • @juliusgallardo7311
    @juliusgallardo7311 7 лет назад +60

    DEUS VULT NON NOMINUS DOMINAE!

  • @MrSwagooters
    @MrSwagooters 7 лет назад +2

    >"Decked head to toe in heavy plate steel armor"
    >everyone in the shot is wearing chainmail, plate wasn't even invented
    >Ave Maria.jpg

  • @crustycobs2669
    @crustycobs2669 3 года назад +3

    Templars were popular in Portugal. Still legendary.

  • @mglamarmd1
    @mglamarmd1 7 лет назад +18

    I believe you have misinterpreted the symbol of two Knights on one horse. The Knights were 'poor', but the two men on a horse does not signify their vow of poverty. The Knights were both Warriors and Monks. Their Rule & Order spell it all out quite clearly. The two men on the one horse signifies their dual nature of being both soldier and clergy.

    • @cerhart7172
      @cerhart7172 4 года назад

      It also is a symbol of their commitment to one another in all things.

    • @troytooke1617
      @troytooke1617 4 года назад

      This statement is incorrect. Templars did in deed share a horse as a symbolic gesture of poverty.

    • @cerhart7172
      @cerhart7172 4 года назад

      @@troytooke1617 - only in the early years as a matter of symbolism, and never in military situations. To ride two-up in battle was suicidal as well as disproven by their actual battle line and strategies.

    • @mglamarmd1
      @mglamarmd1 4 года назад

      I was Knighted in this Order and the story I shared is what the Prior shared when I was dubbed. Feel free to argue amongst yourselves as to what else it signifies.

    • @cerhart7172
      @cerhart7172 4 года назад

      @@mglamarmd1 - I was also Knighted into this Order, and my father was Priory Commander. You are describing the Ritual truth as opposed to the historical facts. The documentation of the Battle Orders from the Holy Land still exists in several museums and archives, and was even available in some of the books I had access to when I was an active Knight. I strongly advise you to do a little research.

  • @MrAcrobot
    @MrAcrobot 7 лет назад +69

    I know this might have nothing to do with the Knights Templar, but 'May the Father of Understanding guide us'

    • @insanearsonist264
      @insanearsonist264 7 лет назад +2

      MrAcrobot assassin's creed refrences

    • @julianparker7596
      @julianparker7596 7 лет назад +13

      Ubisoft as a French company seeks to ruin the name of the Templars. DEUS VULT

    • @spawnofchaos9422
      @spawnofchaos9422 7 лет назад +2

      MrAcrobot I would prefered if in assassin's creed,the vilains were called Illuminatis and not templars

    • @scottpedroley5851
      @scottpedroley5851 7 лет назад

      Alexi Boulos
      They are both different also!

    • @kanejarrett1671
      @kanejarrett1671 7 лет назад +1

      May The Father Of Understanding Guide Us.

  • @sumone9920
    @sumone9920 2 года назад

    Research and being one makes a huge difference on the knowledge of their history… your welcome, love my family native and Templars past and present.

  • @OzzyCrescat
    @OzzyCrescat 7 лет назад +8

    No plate armour at that time sorry, except a bit at the very end (beginning of 14th century)

  • @snowfall5060
    @snowfall5060 5 лет назад

    I know all top ten videos cant be as seamless with each of the facts but this was really well done in my opinion.

  • @filhodarosa7512
    @filhodarosa7512 4 года назад +6

    The Templars survived in Portugal, where they were renamed the Order of Christ. The Templar Cross is also known in Portugal as the Portuguese Cross.

  • @markarmstrong3394
    @markarmstrong3394 7 лет назад

    Great video ! I have been studying the Templar for yrs. Thank you

  • @supremacysammy3173
    @supremacysammy3173 7 лет назад +4

    You recently made a Toptenz video about samurai. So now make a top 10 facts about *Senran Kagura!*

    • @terminator572
      @terminator572 7 лет назад

      RobotSammyTheSupreme!The true evil lord! Sammy i hate anime but… i am with you there.

    • @supremacysammy3173
      @supremacysammy3173 7 лет назад +1

      then spread the word!

  • @dreamlover4128
    @dreamlover4128 4 года назад +1

    History is so fascinating!

  • @masterjedi7648
    @masterjedi7648 5 лет назад +3

    During that era if you owned a sword and a horse you would be considered wealthy. Therefore the individual knights who owned horses, swords and armor were rich by contemporary standards

  • @fabianvalentine2366
    @fabianvalentine2366 6 лет назад

    Great video man

  • @TobyCantrell
    @TobyCantrell 6 лет назад +7

    WOW, not even a reference to Jauque DeMolay

  • @grayrook2406
    @grayrook2406 7 лет назад

    Awesome video top tenz.

  • @yepperdeedooda
    @yepperdeedooda 7 лет назад +63

    It's so hard to believe that there were actually Europeans that awesome.

    • @13Lictor
      @13Lictor 7 лет назад +42

      Ксения Ковалевская Really?
      Spartans? Romans? Vikings? Celts? I could go on and on

    • @yepperdeedooda
      @yepperdeedooda 7 лет назад +20

      Conor Mooney It's hard to believe judging by the way they act today. That's the point. not that there weren't great ones before.

    • @masis6045
      @masis6045 7 лет назад +15

      Ксения Ковалевская the women were great back in the day as well now they just want to suck for a buck

    • @yepperdeedooda
      @yepperdeedooda 7 лет назад +3

      Masi S yum yum

    • @masis6045
      @masis6045 7 лет назад +18

      Ксения Ковалевская I think I've somewhat proved my point

  • @scottpedroley5851
    @scottpedroley5851 7 лет назад +1

    Thanks for a better perspective and putting the Templars in a more positive light than some of the crap that's out there.

  • @Seekarr
    @Seekarr 7 лет назад +4

    Nope, formalized banking first existed in the Bronze ages, beginning about 4000 years ago. Mycenaean era palaces effectively acted as giant banks.
    And the bank note system used by the crusaders looks to be adopted through silk road merchant bankers who had been using the system since the 8th century, originating in China. The first modern banks began in Renaissance Italy, and most successfully by the Medici dynasty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiable_instrument en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking#Medieval_Europe (and check the main article)

    • @griexdast
      @griexdast 7 лет назад

      he is talking bout the first formal banking system being recognize internationally. maybe we can say that the modern style of banking system coming from them... mortgage, an innovative check, etc. Which making them richer like modern bank nowadays. well but the word invented bank tick me off too.

  • @Britfan06
    @Britfan06 7 лет назад +2

    The Knights Templar were awesome!!! Assassin's creed got it so wrong.

  • @SniperFallen06
    @SniperFallen06 7 лет назад +8

    Ave Maria!
    Deus Vult!

  • @metalmatt3431
    @metalmatt3431 3 года назад +1

    I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Templars, I have 3 Templar crosses on 2 of my 5 rings

  • @NeMeSis7PT
    @NeMeSis7PT 3 года назад +4

    When the French king and the pope ordered the templars execution, most of them came to Portugal for protection, portuguese king D. Dinis gave them protection against the pope orders, and they were renamed the order of Christ, Portugal is a templar nation, nowadays they still have a templar castle in Tomar city of Portugal. The 1st king of Portugal D Afonso Henriques was a templar knight himself. Templars were all over Europe in 1300, it’s wrong to say they were only French and lived in France.

    • @antoinemozart243
      @antoinemozart243 3 года назад

      It IS their leaders the kng of France targeted.

    • @philcarson6731
      @philcarson6731 2 года назад

      Didn't some seek safety in Scotland ?

    • @NeMeSis7PT
      @NeMeSis7PT 2 года назад +1

      @@philcarson6731 yes probably, a big part came to Portugal, but some of them ran away to other European countries away from France cos the Portuguese invite for protection didn’t reach all of them in time. They were all over Europe not only in France, but their leader and headquarters was in France before the execution orders.

  • @ravenlord4
    @ravenlord4 7 лет назад +2

    Would love to see a companion piece "top 10 conspiracy theories about the Knights Templar"

  • @skiteufr
    @skiteufr 7 лет назад +17

    The picture of the King of France was not Philip IV of France but Philip IV of Spain, centuries later...

    • @connorbrink4706
      @connorbrink4706 6 лет назад +1

      skiteufr I don't know if the ability to spot a Habsburg jaw makes me cool or irredeemably lame

    • @kathiewippel987
      @kathiewippel987 6 лет назад

      I noticed the jaw also.

    • @Guyfromfakeland
      @Guyfromfakeland 5 лет назад

      RIP

    • @dingusdingus2152
      @dingusdingus2152 3 года назад

      Pity the poor schmuck who had to paint the portraits of the hapsburgs and make the likenesses flattering (such as for example Velazquez who looks really depressed in his own self portrait included in his painting 'Las meninas')

  • @digitalranger4259
    @digitalranger4259 5 лет назад

    Wonderful video!

  • @ahmedshimi4401
    @ahmedshimi4401 7 лет назад +3

    Merry Christmas To All and happy new year

  • @stevenblack4387
    @stevenblack4387 4 года назад +1

    After seeing this program I think that I should point out that the templars were NOT COMPLETELY wiped out in what later became the country of Germany only a few templars were arrested & the rest were probably told to surrender & they would be treated fairly to which they replied with the warning release our brethren or we go to war & as they had the only professional army at the time their brethren were found not guilty & released & in Portugal they simply changed their name whereas in Scotland because the whole country had been excommunicated the dissolution order was never carried out & so the templar order still exists & now its also crossed the Atlantic to America. If you believe the rumour the legendary treasure of Oak island was buried there by the templars due to some templar artifacts said to have been found in the money pit. I have also heard the story that the wife of Christopher Columbus was descended from the last grand master although I cannot confirm that she was but it might explain what Columbus wrote in his diary during his first voyage that he had to make ANOTHER copy of the map which has begged the question as it was the first journey to the new world what map did he have to make another copy of ? Since NO map would exist at that time unless an EARLIER voyage had been made & a map made of that voyage & then that map was handed down through the years after the destruction of the mainland templars

  • @carsonianthegreat4672
    @carsonianthegreat4672 6 лет назад +6

    The Templars still exist. They were absorbed into the Knights Hospitaller which is now known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. They still pledge their allegiance to the Pope.

    • @DrBeak-gl2np
      @DrBeak-gl2np 3 года назад

      I hear that there is an order in the US and another called the Order of Christ. Which is the real one?

  • @pandorasbox-xtremetruth9928
    @pandorasbox-xtremetruth9928 3 года назад

    Great video.thank you

  • @im_hill4501
    @im_hill4501 7 лет назад +15

    Next video! Knights Hospitaller? #TopTenz

    • @Uahmedtahaalnady
      @Uahmedtahaalnady 7 лет назад

      the Wahhabi extremist & the source of Wahhabi bloody heretic ideology ... also the role of Lawrence of Arabia

  • @Jobe-13
    @Jobe-13 3 года назад +1

    These guys were kinda badass.

  • @siveth8149
    @siveth8149 7 лет назад +75

    DEVS VVLT

  • @Knightstruth
    @Knightstruth 7 лет назад +1

    A little bit of a correction: For most of the order's life, Templars would not have worn plate armor. By the early 1300s when the templars were captured, pieces of plate armor being attached to chain mail were only recently becoming widespread
    Also during the Templar era, a "2 handed broadsword" would have been extremely unlikely to be seen in a Templar's possession. Popular weapons of the time when on foot were 1 handed swords as well as maces and flails used with a shield.

  • @LemonChieff
    @LemonChieff 7 лет назад +14

    PRAISE THE SUN \[T]/

    • @jacobtanner3544
      @jacobtanner3544 7 лет назад +1

      Lemon Chief Her Radiance's breath will carry us across the stars to salvation

    • @dylan6091
      @dylan6091 6 лет назад

      You fool... falling for Gwin's lies. Embrace the dark!

  • @alexpt1527
    @alexpt1527 7 лет назад +1

    #Curiosity
    Portugal was the only country in Europe that did not persecute, torture and burn Templars.
    Templars existed in Portugal since 1122, but later on, in 1318, to fool the Pope, the Portuguese renamed the "Knights Templar" to the "Order of Christ" (also called Christ's Knights Order) who had the protection of the Portuguese King after they were abolished in 1312.
    Most of the Templars who managed to survive their mass slaughter, came to Portugal and joined the order that would last until the fall of the Monarchy in 1910.
    The Portuguese Empire (that started in 1415 with the conquering of Ceuta from the Muslims and ended in 1999 with the handover of Macau to the Chinese) relied heavily on the Templars during the Age of Discoveries who accumulated great Riches, Power and Status.
    They were the main reason the Portuguese were so successful.
    If you notice, all the Portuguese ships during that time had the Templars cross on their sails.
    Portugal was basically a Kingdom that was established by Templars and that had a lot of experience fighting Islam and spreading Christianity from all of the years of Crusades in the Iberian Peninsula, North of Africa and Asia.
    In the "Reconquista", the first King of Portugal D. Afonso Henriques and his army with the aid of the Knights Templar, defeated the 5 Muslim Kings.
    Worth saying that the King himself, was brought up as a Templar at a very early age.
    [Legend states that Christ appeared before Afonso giving him and his men the strength to win against the Moors.]
    Also, a common misconception is that there were only 9 original Knights Templar. This is not quite true. There were 11 knights and 2 of them were Portuguese.

  • @CarlosRios1
    @CarlosRios1 7 лет назад +3

    Isn't he the guy from the Today I found out channel?

  • @digapygmy70
    @digapygmy70 5 лет назад +1

    The drawings of those executions were set in Troyes, about an hour and a half outside of Paris. It's one of the few intact medieval cities because it was fortunate enough to avoid the bombs and warfare of WWII, so the city center looks pretty much the same now as it did then.

  • @sabaruengineering3843
    @sabaruengineering3843 3 года назад +3

    The British accomplished Crusader mission On December 11, 1917
    General Edmund Allenby entered the Old City on foot through the Jaffa Gate instead of horse or vehicles to show respect for the holy city. He was the first Christian in many centuries to control Jerusalem
    On this historic occasion, Allenby reportedly declared that “the wars of the crusades are now complete”

    • @olelain
      @olelain 2 года назад

      ridiculous...

    • @SnoopReddogg
      @SnoopReddogg 2 года назад

      Umm, didn't Chauvel enter Jerusalem as commander the Australian Light Horse before Allenby arrived after the city was secured????

  • @Jammil2477
    @Jammil2477 7 лет назад

    There is a very easy to read and concise history of the crusades called Deus Vult. Well worth the read as it gives a better understanding of how things happened and why. Also Stefan Molyneux did a great vid on the crusades too.

  • @TobyCantrell
    @TobyCantrell 6 лет назад +6

    So um... no one knows that they are part of FreeMasonry? No? Ok then...

  • @Matbronk
    @Matbronk 5 лет назад

    @TopTenz, thank you so much for your very informative and interesting posts! Please just note that the image in #6 is that of Philip IV of Spain (House of Habsburg, a few centuries later...) not of Philip IV of France (House of Capet). Thanks again!

  • @jackj9816
    @jackj9816 7 лет назад +24

    Assassins creed just got to real

    • @aht9140
      @aht9140 7 лет назад +1

      Jack J it was real

    • @jackj9816
      @jackj9816 7 лет назад +1

      +AHT not all of it haha

    • @thearizonarangerwiththebig3874
      @thearizonarangerwiththebig3874 7 лет назад

      Jack J they were real,they were called hashinshins,and they've had killed some knights of templars

    • @templarking6819
      @templarking6819 7 лет назад

      The Unknown cause they were high off drugez

    • @travishimebaugh8381
      @travishimebaugh8381 7 лет назад

      No, no, no... we have no evidence that Templars ever met Assassins on the battlefield. And the Hashashin considered their chief enemy of the Third Crusade to be Saladin- if they ever interacted with Templars, it would have made much more sense to be allies than enemies. The Hashashin definitely targeted a few Crusaders, like Conrad of Montferrat (and one possible hypothesis is that his death was commissioned by Richard Lionheart himself), but for the most part they used their assassination techniques against local rulers in the Muslim world. The list of their assassinations includes far more sultans and caliphs than it does European Crusaders, and that list contains no Templars as far as I'm aware.

  • @rev.stephena.cakouros948
    @rev.stephena.cakouros948 7 лет назад

    Excellent stuff thanks

  • @MMorgattto
    @MMorgattto 7 лет назад +4

    maybe "they could quote the bible backwards" wasnt the best of examples when defending them of heresy

  • @vipondiu
    @vipondiu 7 лет назад +1

    Realistically, it's probably too long for a T-shirt but I want "I will charge into battle first and stay there until everything around me is either dead or currently having its face cleaved in two by a two-handed broadsword" on my next T-shirt

  • @torinjones3221
    @torinjones3221 7 лет назад +15

    so the templars were actually good guys unless you believe assassins creed

    • @agent.-_-5846
      @agent.-_-5846 7 лет назад +5

      Assassins creed is a fantasy game..

    • @Melodeath00
      @Melodeath00 5 лет назад +6

      ​@Nicholas EnnosFactually wrong. They were considered the very best of the best of the European forces, both militarily and morally. Saladin killed all Templars (and Hospitalliers) he captured at Hattin, because he considered them a military threat. They were so effective on the battlefield, that he made sure they couldn't be ransomed off and rejoin another Crusader army.
      There is also no historical record of the Knightly orders taking part in any unprovoked raids/slaughter of civilization or anything else. In fact, there's a lot of sources that claim the opposite, that the Knights of the Orders generally were the most honourable and agreeable of the Europeans, including protecting Muslim visitors to Crusader controlled Jerusalem from harassment from the more zealous/radical Chrstians, which usually were the ones who had freshly arrived from Europe.
      If it wasn't obvious enough, the portrayal of Templars as villains in AC or Kingdom of Heaven, is extremely ahistorical.

    • @crpth1
      @crpth1 4 года назад

      For someone coming from "assassins creed". Have these details in mind. The reason why their're portrayed so badly is indeed very simple. For someone who knows a minimum of history.
      You have Portuguese on one side (Templar) and Castilian (Spanish) on the other! All packed on a French publication. ;-)
      It's that simple!! The rest is just business as usual.

  • @elsololopo6115
    @elsololopo6115 7 лет назад

    Hi! nice video, cool facts and all :) will definetly watch your channel! thanks for the awesome work!
    But just wanted to add that at 3:30 when talking about french King Philippe 4 "le Bel" (1268-1314) you put a portrait of Philippe 4 of Spain (1605-1665), so...i dont know if its possible to fix this or not but just wanted you to know :)
    have a great day!

  • @MrAcrobot
    @MrAcrobot 7 лет назад +5

    age of empires lol. I know this isnt in 2 but Wololo wololo aiyo yo!

  • @somebody3143
    @somebody3143 5 лет назад

    I am really enjoying this series. Thanks for making it available to everyone! Question: did all of the money end up in the hands of Heads of State and a select, few, super rich people? Well, besides the Pope/Vatican of course!

  • @Tsadi9Mem9Khet9
    @Tsadi9Mem9Khet9 7 лет назад +5

    Totally innocent? Simon, you have no clue what you're talking about.

  • @fredrikandersson9031
    @fredrikandersson9031 7 лет назад

    OMG! I love Arn Tempelriddaren (Knight Templar). Those are some of my favourite movies ever. just under Lord of The Rings and the Hobbit trilogies. Maybe the six first movies of Star Warst though.

  • @itsBepizz
    @itsBepizz 6 лет назад +3

    Nothing is true everything is permitted

  • @geordiecrusader4066
    @geordiecrusader4066 5 лет назад +2

    We are still here

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 7 лет назад +8

    Kinda misleading to say they were all poor, pratically all of the higher ranks had to come from nobility. Now they didnt take money in from the rich organization but many did come from wealthy families just look at the first 9 knights all from very wealthy families that have maintained a vast fortune threw centuries. Also most of all the masters of the temples were of noble blood. You dont trust poor ppl to manage very rich organizations what would poor ppl know about managing fortunes? Nothing, so hence why rich ppl control rich things. You wouldnt trust a bum off the streets to become ceo of a fortune 500 company. (unless your Eddie Murphy)

    • @me5969
      @me5969 7 лет назад

      But they give it all to the order once they joined, it's like if you joined a mercenary company now and had to give them you're house, car, money ect. The company will be rich but you as aindividual would have nothing. Like a cult really now i think about it

    • @thewalkingvloggingman7152
      @thewalkingvloggingman7152 7 лет назад

      How would YOU know, you weren't there.

    • @Sevenigma777
      @Sevenigma777 7 лет назад +5

      Vincent Turner oh with that logic how do we know anything? I wonder who was the first American president? Such a mystery cause no one on Earth was there only if there was some way to know like what if someone who was there like wrote it down or even drew a picture something that could be passed down so the rest of us would know.

    • @TheBoyChur
      @TheBoyChur 6 лет назад

      So ...they were poor

    • @nkvdcomradeorion7336
      @nkvdcomradeorion7336 6 лет назад

      Chur Mostly poor I assume, not all, though.

  • @franklewis3536
    @franklewis3536 7 лет назад

    omg. your historical accuracy is uncanny especially for a RUclips video kudos well done

    • @franklewis3536
      @franklewis3536 7 лет назад

      only discretion templars who confessed were usually spared but imprisoned for life.

  • @alexiagaertner5867
    @alexiagaertner5867 7 лет назад +8

    I'm curious for the islamitic perspective to the Templar Knights.

    • @GreyWolf849
      @GreyWolf849 7 лет назад +8

      Alexia Gaertner Templars allowed Muslims to pray in the Holy Land. One Muslim, I forget his name, but I will comment again on that when I get back home, even called the Templars his "friend".

    • @GreyWolf849
      @GreyWolf849 7 лет назад

      Alexia Gaertner "friends" sorry.

    • @GreyWolf849
      @GreyWolf849 7 лет назад +8

      This is from the book 'Arab Historians of the Crusades' by Francesco Gabrieli. The section is called 'THE TEMPLARS AT JERUSALEM' by Usama ibn Munqidh. "When I was in Jerusalem I used to go to the Masjid al-Aqsa, beside which is a small oratory which the Franks have made into a church. Whenever I went into the Mosque, which was in the hands of Templars who were friends of mine, they would put the oratory at my disposal, so that I could say my prayers there." I will keep going if you are interested, but my point was made above. However, the rest does have to do with the Templars. "One day I had gone in, said the Allah akhbar and risen to begin my prayers, when a Frank threw himself on me from behind, lifted me up and turned me so that I was facing east. 'That is the way to pray!' he said. Some Templars at once intervened, seized the man and took him out of my way, while I resumed my prayer. But the moment they stopped watching him he seized me again and forced me to face east, repeating that this was the way to pray. Again the Templars intervened and took him away. They apologized to me and said: 'He is a foreigner who has just arrived today from his homeland in the north, and he has never seen anyone pray facing any other direction than east.' 'I have finished my prayers,' I said, and left, stupefied by the fanatic who had been so perturbed and upset to see someone praying facing the qibla." Obviously, this is just one Muslim, but the Templars do as well protect individuals from other faiths as well, as shown here.

    • @alexiagaertner5867
      @alexiagaertner5867 7 лет назад +1

      Wow, thanks.
      Did the other muslims saw the Templars as hostile?

    • @GreyWolf849
      @GreyWolf849 7 лет назад +7

      Alexia Gaertner only the hostile Muslims saw the Templars as hostile. You see, the main purpose of the Templars was to protect pilgrims (of all faiths) coming to and going out of the Holy Land. If said pilgrims were to be attacked, then the Templars would intervene through warfare.

  • @rizkii.m3685
    @rizkii.m3685 4 года назад +1

    Ezio says Nothing is true everything is permitted........Requescat in Pace

  • @trey5747
    @trey5747 7 лет назад +3

    1st like

  • @dylanchristman978
    @dylanchristman978 5 лет назад +1

    *_May the father of understanding guide us all..._*

  • @WiseDude50
    @WiseDude50 7 лет назад +10

    DEUS VULT! DEUS VULT! DEUS VULT!

  • @DavidFernandez-sc5ws
    @DavidFernandez-sc5ws 6 лет назад

    "Hello I'm Simon Whistler..." Subcribed.

  • @harismpalatsoukas2777
    @harismpalatsoukas2777 7 лет назад +8

    DEUS VULT

  • @huntandcook364
    @huntandcook364 7 лет назад

    I was of the presumption that it was merchants from Milano and other Italien cities who invented the first checks, as they would sit on designated benches (banca) in towns (a person sitting on a bench (banchier) and write out notes (nota) later bank notes. So people didn't have to bring live stock from town to town to do business. If they somehow had written out to many notes and weren't able to give people back what they owed, people would break the bench they sad on (banca rota) later where bankrupt derives from.
    Also in same context. When people would come to market with let's say a bag of wheat to sell. They would have been traveling on dirty muddy roads, therefor the bag would be heavy with all the extra mud. So the weight of the dirty bag of wheat would be sold as "brutto" meaning dirty in Italien where a clean bag would be sold as "netto" meaning clean.

  • @Hades1197
    @Hades1197 7 лет назад

    I enjoyed the video very much, thanks for making it. Super interesting I had no clue about some of these. However, number 7 was actually the catholic church trying to save them from persecution in France and standing against the persecution because the french monarch of the time had meany reason to benefit from their destruction. Also the crossing boarders thing wasn't that big of an issue in the middle east because the country either would kill them no matter the law or was glad to accept them in to the country for help.

  • @JudeNance
    @JudeNance 3 года назад

    Interesting. Thanks 😊

  • @Popityman
    @Popityman 3 года назад +1

    I might try live by their code

  • @leemason5953
    @leemason5953 7 лет назад +1

    Simon the templars are still around today, Portugal and Malta.