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Web information about the Military Orders, Hospitallers (Hospitalers) and Templars, can get a little nutty.  It was probably less nutty prior to the publication of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code...but then, there it is.  I have attempted to find reputable history sites for my links.  My intent here is to get to the basics and not spin out too crazily across the universe.  The core of this page is comprised of information from Abbot Gasquet's book English Monastic Life. Gasquet published the book through The Antiquaries Book series in 1904.  It is now out of print and not generally available.  There may be a number of factual errors in the text, or points on which historians or theologians do not agree.    Gasquet's text, notes & links>>
           

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The Templars

The Military Order of the Templars was founded, according to Tanner, about the year A.D. 1118.  They derived their name from the Temple of Jerusalem, and the original purpose of their institute was to secure the roads to Palestine, and protect the holy places.  They must have come into England early in the reign of King Stephen, as they had several foundations at this time, the first being that in London which gave its name to the present Temple.  They became too right and powerful ; and having been accused of great crimes, their Order was suppressed by Pope Clement V in 1309 : an act which was confirmed in the Council of Vienne in 1312.  The head of the Order in England was styled the “Master of the Temple,” and was sometimes, as such, summoned to Parliament.

            Upon there manors and estates the Templars, like the Hospitallers, frequently built churches and houses, in which some of the brethren lived.  These were subordinate to the London house and were in reality cells, under the title of “Preceptories.”  On the final suppression of the Order, their lands and houses, to the number of eighteen, were handed over to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.  One house, Ferriby, in Yorkshire, became a priory of Austin Canons, and four other estates appear to have been confiscated.  In all there were some three-and-twenty preceptories connected with the London Temple. 


   English Monastic Life by F.A. Gasquet.  (pages 231.)


Templar Houses in England
(For more English Religious Houses, see the index page):

Grantham

Templar only

Lincoln.

Newsom Temple

Templar only

Yorks.

Saddlescombe

Templar only

Sussex.

Aslakeby

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln

Badersley(South)

Templar & Hospitaller

Hants.

Balsall

Templar & Hospitaller

Warwick.

Cressing (Temple)

Templar & Hospitaller

Essex.

Dimsley (Temple)

Templar & Hospitaller

Herts.

Eycle (see Egle)

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Gislingham

Templar & Hospitaller

Suffolk.

Halston

Templar & Hospitaller

Salop.

Maltby, or Louth  (see Temple Maltby)

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Mere  (see Temple Mere)

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Rebston

Templar & Hospitaller

Yorks, W. R.

Rotheley

Templar & Hospitaller

Leicester.

Swinfield

Templar & Hospitaller

Kent.

Temply Bruer (Bruerne)

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Temple Covele

Templar & Hospitaller

Oxford.

Temple Dynesley

Templar & Hospitaller

Herts.

Temple Egle

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Temple Hirst

Templar & Hospitaller

Yorks, W. R.

Temple Maltby

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Temple Mere

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Temple Newsam

Templar & Hospitaller

Yorks, W. R.

Temple Rockley

Templar & Hospitaller

Wilts.

Temple Standon

Templar & Hospitaller

Herts.

Temple Witham

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Temple Wilcketone

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.

Warwick

Templar & Hospitaller

Warwick.

Wilburgham, Great  (Wilbraham)

Templar & Hospitaller

Cambridge.

<>Witham, or South Witham  (see Temple Witham)

Templar & Hospitaller

Lincoln.


          Not mentioned in this list is the hermitage known as Royston Cave, see my blog on the subject.


Templar Links:

 
'House of Knights Templar: The preceptory of Ewell', A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1926), p. 175  British History Online.     

'House of Knights Templar: Dunwich', A History of the County of Suffolk: Volume 2 (1975), p. 120.  British History Online.

Knights Templars, an article from Newadvent.org.

The History of the Knights Templar by Charles G. Addison.  Written before the hooplah.  Through sacred-texts.com.


A modern site to mitigate the modern hooplah?  The Knights Templar, an article from Slate.com

Knights Templar, a hobbiest site with a lot of information, from Anne Veling.



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