A short history of the military orders, beginning with the Hospitallers and moving to the Templars’ rise, their persecution and suppression under Pope Clement V, and the order in Scotland. Later chapters and appendices, some in French, present the nineteenth-century French order’s claim of unbroken descent through the disputed Charter of Transmission, which historians regard as a later fabrication.
Of interest to students of Templar legend and of how the order’s mystique was revived in the Romantic age. Download the free EPUB.