[ARCHIVE] Real Crusades History | Who were the Knights Templar?

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LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=691kx2807dc
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
"Who were the Knights Templar? They were warrior monks, an order of knights who gave up everything to defend pilgrims and sacred places. Clad in their iconic white mantles marked with a scarlet cross, these brother knights were the hope of pilgrims traveling the dangerous roads of the Holy Land. All through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Templars thundered across the battlefields of the crusades, often defeating their enemies even when they were greatly outnumbered. Today, we’ll investigate the background of the Knights Templar, and come to understand their place in the history of the Middle Ages.

Sources:
-Baha ad-Din ibn-Shaddad - The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, trans. D.S. Richards, (Ashgate, 2002)
-Barber, Malcolm - The New Knighthood, (Cambridge, 1994)
-Frale, Barbara - The Templars - The Secret History Revealed, (Arcade, 2009)
-Nicholson, Helen - The Knights Templar, (Sutton, 2001)
-The Templar of Tyre: Part III of the Deeds of the Cypriots, trans. Paul F. Crawford, (Ashgate, 2017)
-William of Tyre - A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, Vol. II, trans. Emily Babcock and A.C. Krey, (Columbia University Press, 1943)"