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Knights Templar

What do you know about medieval knights who fought in the crusades?
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Last updated: October 7, 2021
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1. When were the Knight Templars established?
1100s
1200s
1400s
1300s
2. Where were the Knight Templars headquarters?
Jerusalem
Rome
Marseilles
Paris
3. What was the original purpose of the Knights Templar?
Protection of trade routes and pilgrims
Mercenaries
Private army of the King of France
Protection of the Pope
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?
25
15
9
12
6. Which temple is referred to in the full name of the Knights Templar?
Zerubbabel's Temple
Herod's Temple
Temple Church
Solomon's Temple
7. Which symbol was typically used as a seal by Knights Templar grand masters?
Maltese cross
The two riders
Square and compasses
Jerusalem cross
8. What event marked the destruction of the last remaining Crusader refuge in the Holy Land?
Siege of Antioch
Fall of Acre
Battle of Pelagonia
Siege of Jerusalem
9. Who ordered the arrest and suppression of the Knights Templar in 1307?
Edward I of England
Alfonso IV of Aragon
Philip IV of France
Albert I of Germany
10. After the fall of Jerusalem in the late 13th century to which island did the Knights Templar withdraw?
Rhodes
Crete
Malta
Cyprus
11. How were the Knights Templar dressed?
Black mantles with white cross
White mantles with red cross
Black mantles with red cross
White mantles with black cross
12. Who was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar?
Guillaume de Beaujeu
Thomas Bérard
Thibaud Gaudin
Jacques de Molay
13. What are the Knights Templar allowed to do?
To gamble
To swear
To eat meals together
To get drunk
14. By the early 1500s the Templars had joined the Knights Hospitallers. What was their name after 1530?
Teutonic Knights
Knights of Sicily
Order of Saint Lazarus
Knights of Malta
15. Which Grand Master of the Knights Templar was beheaded by Saladin in 1189 at the Siege of Acre?
Gérard de Ridefort
Guillaume de Nogaret
Godfrey de Saint-Omer
Landry de Lauzon
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