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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?
1200s
1400s
1300s
1100s
2. Where were the Knight Templars headquarters?
Paris
Jerusalem
Marseilles
Rome
3. What was the original purpose of the Knights Templar?
Mercenaries
Protection of the Pope
Private army of the King of France
Protection of trade routes and pilgrims
4. Who created a military order the Knights Templar?
Bernard of Clairvaux
Guillaume de Chartres
Hugues de Payens
Gerard de Ridefort
5. How many relatives and acquaintances founded the Knights Templar order?
9
25
15
12
6. Which temple is referred to in the full name of the Knights Templar?
Zerubbabel's Temple
Herod's Temple
Solomon's Temple
Temple Church
7. Which symbol was typically used as a seal by Knights Templar grand masters?
Square and compasses
The two riders
Jerusalem cross
Maltese cross
8. What event marked the destruction of the last remaining Crusader refuge in the Holy Land?
Siege of Jerusalem
Siege of Antioch
Battle of Pelagonia
Fall of Acre
9. Who ordered the arrest and suppression of the Knights Templar in 1307?
Alfonso IV of Aragon
Edward I of England
Albert I of Germany
Philip IV of France
10. After the fall of Jerusalem in the late 13th century to which island did the Knights Templar withdraw?
Malta
Cyprus
Rhodes
Crete
11. How were the Knights Templar dressed?
Black mantles with red cross
White mantles with red cross
White mantles with black cross
Black mantles with white cross
12. Who was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar?
Thomas Bérard
Jacques de Molay
Guillaume de Beaujeu
Thibaud Gaudin
13. What are the Knights Templar allowed to do?
To get drunk
To eat meals together
To swear
To gamble
14. By the early 1500s the Templars had joined the Knights Hospitallers. What was their name after 1530?
Teutonic Knights
Knights of Sicily
Knights of Malta
Order of Saint Lazarus
15. Which Grand Master of the Knights Templar was beheaded by Saladin in 1189 at the Siege of Acre?
Gérard de Ridefort
Landry de Lauzon
Guillaume de Nogaret
Godfrey de Saint-Omer
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