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The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors

de Dan Jones

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History. Religion & Spirituality. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:??Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.? ?? The Times, Book of the Year

New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is ??a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger" ?? Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem
 
A faltering war in the middle east. A band of elite warriors determined to fight to the death to protect Christianity??s holiest sites. A global financial network unaccountable to any government. A sinister plot founded on a web of lies.

Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since. 

In this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in myth. The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the lands of Islam. Experts at channeling money across borders, they established the medieval world??s largest and most innovative banking network and waged private wars against anyone who threatened their interests.

Then, as they faced setbacks at the hands of the ruthless Mamluk sultan Baybars and were forced to retreat to their stronghold in Cyprus, a vindictive and cash-strapped King of France set his sights on their fortune. His administrators quietly mounted a damning case against the Templars, built on deliberate lies and false testimony. On Friday October 13, 1307, hundreds of brothers were arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and the order was disbanded amid lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Pope in secret proceedings and their last master was brutally tortured and burned at the stake. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources tobring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, to life in a book that is at once authoritative and c
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With an excellent narrative Dan Jones picks his way across the scorching terrain of the Crusades and how the Templars picked its bones and became the most powerful religious military order in history while using the greed and piety of European Kings to fill their coffers. Gritty, bold and unbiased Dan Jones stands between the Christian and Muslim armies and lets us have it as the arrows fly and the Calvary charges. It's all there. Impetuous Templar leaders, brazen Kings, calculating and precise Muslim leaders all set the scale for centuries of brutal conflict that clearly cannot identify a winner. As you read this book the ground will shake with hooves and the doomed will plead for mercy from their God. The amount of research Jones does not only in this volume but all of his works is almost unimaginable. He deserves some serious credit. ( )
  JHemlock | Feb 13, 2023 |
Meg lehetne akár úgy is közelíteni, hogy egy üzleti kézikönyvet olvasunk: hogyan alapítsunk középkori startup-céget, és legyünk irritálóan gazdagok? A helyszín a Templom-hegy Jeruzsálemben, a XII. század legelején, ahol pár férfiember összegyűlik, és brainstormingba kezd. Milyen lefedetlen piaci igény van itt, kérdik egymástól. Körbetekintve látják, hogy özönlik a sok ezer zarándok a Közel-Keletre, ahol épp most foglalták el a keresztesek a partvidék jelentős részét, és minden vágyuk, hogy bibliás helyszíneken szelfizhessenek – dübörög tehát a vallási turizmus. Csakhogy errefelé egyszerűen hemzsegnek a rablók és útonállók, úgyhogy szerencsétlen zarándokokat bármelyik pillanatban megkopaszthatják, eladhatják rabszolgának vagy nemes egyszerűséggel kibelezhetik őket. Na, itt villan fel az egyik pacák – Hugues de Payns – fejében az egymillió dukátos gondolat: alakítsunk őrző-védő céget azzal a funkcióval, hogy megvédjük az ideérkező keresztényeket az atrocitásoktól! Sőt, lépjünk eggyel tovább: ezt az őrző-védő céget rögtön jegyeztessünk be mint szerzetesrendet, mert így nem a csóró zarándokoktól kell elszednünk a pénzt, hanem királyokhoz és elsősorban a pápához folyamodhatunk támogatásért. És lőn. A cég a patinás „Templomos Lovagrend” néven megalakul, az igazgatótanács tagjai pedig turnézni kezdenek Nyugat-Európában, hogy befektetőket találjanak maguknak. Ez pedig olyan jól megy, hogy nemcsak a pápa szóbeli támogatását nyerik el, de a lelkes uralkodók is megszórják őket mindenféle földi jóval: birtokokkal, adómentességgel, satöbbivel. Dől a pénz.

A Templomos Rend innentől kezdve sikertörténet, de olyan sikertörténet, aminek alapvetően két arca van. Az egyik a Szentföldön (és a mai Spanyolország területén) vívott folyamatos és változó kimenetelű (de – legalábbis a Szentföldön – egyre esélytelenebb) háború a muszlimok ellen, ahol a lovagok a kereszténység kardjának szerepében tetszeleghetnek. Szó se róla, ezt az ipart igazán profin űzik, gyakorlatilag nem képzelhető el olyan hadmozdulat a vidéken, amiben ne vállalnának szerepet. A másik arcuk nem ilyen látványos, de nem kevésbé lényeges: a templomosoknak juttatott anyagi javak gondozása az európai kontinensen. És hát javaik ugye vannak rendesen, kell is, hogy legyenek, mert a permanens háborúzás elképesztő költségekkel jár, amelyeket elő kell teremteni valahonnan, és ez legitimálja, hogy piszkosul sok földet és ingatlant birtokoljanak. Ez pedig végül oda vezet, hogy a templomosok lassan már királyoknak kölcsönöznek és komplett hajóhadakat (tokkal-vonóval) finanszíroznak. A vállalkozás a csúcsra jutott!

Csak innentől jön a lejtmenet. Főleg azért, mert a Szentföldön a muszlim ellenállás egyre combosabb lesz, egyre-másra foglalják vissza a keresztes háborúkban elveszített területeiket. Ez persze nem a templomosok hibája, mert ők még ekkor is megtesznek mindent, amit csak lehet – más kérdés, hogy ebben a kontextusban ez pusztán azt jelenti, hogy harcolva halnak meg. A baj az, hogy Európa mintha megunta volna a szentföldi kalandot, néha nekibuzdul ugyan, de többnyire magával van elfoglalva, következésképpen az utánpótlás akadozik, a királyok a vállukat vonogatják, ha támogatást kérnek tőlük, sőt, már a templomosokat se hősöknek tekintik, hanem olyasvalakiknek, akik indokolatlanul sok pénz fölött rendelkeznek, de nem tudják megszolgálni azt – értsd: képtelenek egyedül megbirkózni az iszlámmal. Amikor aztán az utolsó keresztény erősség is elbukik a Közel-Keleten, az megpecsételi a lovagok sorsát, bár erről (szokás szerint) ők szereznek utoljára tudomást. Hisz létük értelme a Szentföld elvesztésével megkérdőjeleződött, viszont javaik nagyon is léteznek, és sokan ácsingóznak rájuk – mindenekelőtt Szép Fülöp francia király, aki egy majd kétszáz éves sikersztori végére rak pontot azzal, hogy elindítja a templomosok ellen a csődeljárást. És a csődeljárás ebben a korszakban bizony kínvallatást, várbörtönt és máglyát jelentett. Szívás.

Jól megírt, olvasmányos szöveg egy színes korszakról. Majd olyan érdekes, mint a balga összeesküvés-elméletek, amelyekben a templomosok szerepelnek. Jó, hogy van. ( )
  Kuszma | Jul 2, 2022 |
An interesting read. ( )
  fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 |
The review by “The Guardian“ at the top of the page pretty much says it all. This is a great read for any history buff and serves to dispel the many myths surrounding the Templars and their so called status as “God's Holy Warriors“ (when juxtaposed along side the Bible). I will likely read this again some day in the future. A very good read. ( )
  282Mikado | Apr 13, 2022 |
A free loan from audible. Enjoyable non-fiction listen about what the templars actually did. ( )
  infjsarah | Sep 15, 2021 |
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History. Religion & Spirituality. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:??Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.? ?? The Times, Book of the Year

New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is ??a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger" ?? Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem
 
A faltering war in the middle east. A band of elite warriors determined to fight to the death to protect Christianity??s holiest sites. A global financial network unaccountable to any government. A sinister plot founded on a web of lies.

Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since. 

In this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in myth. The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the lands of Islam. Experts at channeling money across borders, they established the medieval world??s largest and most innovative banking network and waged private wars against anyone who threatened their interests.

Then, as they faced setbacks at the hands of the ruthless Mamluk sultan Baybars and were forced to retreat to their stronghold in Cyprus, a vindictive and cash-strapped King of France set his sights on their fortune. His administrators quietly mounted a damning case against the Templars, built on deliberate lies and false testimony. On Friday October 13, 1307, hundreds of brothers were arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and the order was disbanded amid lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Pope in secret proceedings and their last master was brutally tortured and burned at the stake. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources tobring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, to life in a book that is at once authoritative and c

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