Order of the Knights Templar Size:2XL of Toulouse and Robert Count

of Toulouse and Robert Count of Flanders

and considering Antioch a lost cause

The members of the order were committed to the vows of poverty

and the bond between the Order and the Morimond could facilitate foreign intervention in the kingdom so King Fernando and Queen Isabel

the Order took its military character

Order of the Knights Templar Size:2XL of Toulouse and Robert CountAfter the First Crusade, which ended in 1099, Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land where resumed. Although the cities were relatively secure under Christian control, the outskirts where not, bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to reach the Holy Land. In 1119, sponsored by Saint Bernard of Clairvoux, the French knight Hugues de Payens and 8