Knights Templar

What do you know about medieval knights who fought in the crusades?

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1. When were the Knight Templars established?

1100s

1200s

1400s

1300s

2. Where were the Knight Templars headquarters?

Marseilles

Paris

Rome

Jerusalem

3. What was the original purpose of the Knights Templar?

Protection of trade routes and pilgrims

Protection of the Pope

Mercenaries

Private army of the King of France

4. Who created a military order the Knights Templar?

Hugues de Payens

Gerard de Ridefort

Bernard of Clairvaux

Guillaume de Chartres

5. How many relatives and acquaintances founded the Knights Templar order?

6. Which temple is referred to in the full name of the Knights Templar?

Zerubbabel's Temple

Solomon's Temple

Temple Church

Herod's Temple

7. Which symbol was typically used as a seal by Knights Templar grand masters?

Maltese cross

Square and compasses

The two riders

Jerusalem cross

8. What event marked the destruction of the last remaining Crusader refuge in the Holy Land?

Siege of Jerusalem

Fall of Acre

Battle of Pelagonia

Siege of Antioch

9. Who ordered the arrest and suppression of the Knights Templar in 1307?

Edward I of England

Albert I of Germany

Alfonso IV of Aragon

Philip IV of France

10. After the fall of Jerusalem in the late 13th century to which island did the Knights Templar withdraw?

Crete

Rhodes

Malta

Cyprus

11. How were the Knights Templar dressed?

Black mantles with white cross

Black mantles with red cross

White mantles with red cross

White mantles with black cross

12. Who was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar?

Thibaud Gaudin

Jacques de Molay

Guillaume de Beaujeu

Thomas Bérard

13. What are the Knights Templar allowed to do?

To eat meals together

To get drunk

To swear

To gamble

14. By the early 1500s the Templars had joined the Knights Hospitallers. What was their name after 1530?

Knights of Malta

Order of Saint Lazarus

Knights of Sicily

Teutonic Knights

15. Which Grand Master of the Knights Templar was beheaded by Saladin in 1189 at the Siege of Acre?

Landry de Lauzon

Gérard de Ridefort

Guillaume de Nogaret

Godfrey de Saint-Omer

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