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Rosicrucians, Freemasons & Secret Societies
The Templars
The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors
- First published2017
- TraditionSecret Societies
- Shelf93 books
A vivid narrative history of the Knights Templar from their founding in Jerusalem to their destruction under Philip IV, drawing on recent scholarship. Accessible and well paced, it ends by noting how the order's fall fed centuries of legend.












