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They began as pilgrims, fought as warrior monks, enriched themselves as bankers and ended up as heretics: British historian Dan Jones has reread the sources on the Templars and offers a masterpiece of historical narrative art with this book: at the latest state of research, with a sure sense of extraordinary episodes and exciting from the first to the last.

Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeks a new task after the First Crusade and establishes the "Poor Knightship of Christ and the Solomon Temple at Jerusalem" to protect Jerusalem pilgrims. Soon a miraculous ascent begins: the novel warrior monks become the military elite unit fighting for the Crusader states in the Holy Land. Country estates in Europe, horrendous ransoms and tributes provide bubbly revenues. The "poor knightship" becomes a bank house on which merchants and kings in the Orient and Occident depend on. But the fabulous wealth awakens desires. It begins the time of pursuit. The last grandmaster burns at the stake in 1314.
Dan Jones masterfully understands how to put the reader completely into the time of the crusades while maintaining the critical distance from the sources. Anyone who has read his evocative book will deeply understand why the rise and decline of the Knights Templar have been inspiring imagination since the Middle Ages and to this day.