Knights Templar Timeline of Events

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Knights Templar

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon , commonly known as the Knights Templar, the Order of the Temple or simply as Templars, were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders...

Timeline of Events

1129

1.14.1129

Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes.

1189

10.1.1189

Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.

1307

10.13.1307

Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy.

1310

5.11.1310

In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.

1314

3.18.1314

Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.