Order of the Knights Templar Size:2XL to the city of Seville

to the city of Seville

including women in childbirth and infants

and reconstituted by Ferdinand VII in 1814

and considering Antioch a lost cause

the Order took its military character

Order of the Knights Templar Size:2XL to the city of SevilleAfter 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