10 Illuminating Facts About The Knights Templar

[@lexigrimhaive]

The Knights Templar didn’t just “disband”. Philip IV arrested, tortured and killed TONS of them.

[@dicktrickle782]

They also morphed into the knights of Christ and are still around to this day.

[@HarlanShakey]

He made it a decree that everyone rise up and take their land and drive them out

[@arditthaqi1976]

The knights templar are responsible for a lot of things that have/are happening today as well, which u can realise if u do ur own research about them. Don't expect a show on yt to tell u everything.

[@williamvalentino4805]

No only a handful were killed n only about 400 were arrested most were released within a few weeks the rest later Grand Prior Wm Valentino Grand Priory of Saint Matthew Europe Sovereign Military Order Of the Holy Trinity Templar Knights PS present day Knights Templar dates back to 1807 When Emperor Napoleon of France We are still here more powerful than ever

[@ShadowFungus]

To get their wealth probably.

[@h1n1virus85]

Weird history you should do a show on the myth surrounding Friday the 13th.

[@ruthanneseven]

They just did, silly! This was it!

[@grIMAG3]

6:16

[@theburrowrises8549]

Might be a job for the History Guy.

[@TheGenericavatar]

At the time, Pope Clement the 5th was basically under the French King's control since the Pope resided in France at the time. Circumstantial records/reports/history indicates that the surviving Knights Templar may be the founding bankers for Switzerland, who were mainly unsophisticated farmers and other rural types, and yet the Swiss bankers arose suddenly with sophisticated monetary systems and banking methods far in excess of what the local Swiss were capable of.

[@kriegfaust]

I heard something similar to this from a local historian. He said..."The region we know as Switzerland today is 2 months ride by horse from Jerusalem so 2 months after the crusades ended some of the knights set up an outpost there where they would send any treasures for safe storage. As they became more of a global outfit and garnered more gold and money more often than not it went to Switzerland and when the order was disbanded most of them fled there and remained Swiss to this day". Don't know how true it all is either way but I have been to Switzerland and I can say its a beautiful place and definitely feels different to anywhere else I've visited. Things work, run on time, its clean, the people seem friendly and mostly are multi lingual, loads to do whatever your interests are. Really worth a visit if you can afford it!.

[@darthsilversith667]

I wouldn’t find it hard to believe about Templars fleeing to Scotland and Bruce giving them land and title for their help. The French (where the templars came from), were very big allies of Scotland at that time because of their common enemy in England and the timelines match up. It might not be true.. but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

[@sashalimpar7054]

Oh, my, gosh. This is truly your best video yet, thank you so much. 🌻

[@mihaipascal3423]

Hi, Weird History! A bit late to the party, but I'd love to hear a similar version of this applied to the Teutonic Order. Great video, by the way.

[@hirothompson5133]

Philip IV: Give me money Knights Templar: No Philip IV: So, you have chosen death

[@jmal]

Also Philip IV: Yo Clement, want some de Molay Flambé?

[@BabbleOn777]

My family comes from generations of Knights Templar, our family castle I'm France that bears our last name, Chateau Chastenay has a dark grotto and doors to nowhere underneath it, it is still there, but not !any can go inside.

[@privatename3536]

Why can no-one go inside? Is the structure unsafe?

[@SpaQueenRocks]

@@privatename3536 The door leads to a portal. It must be protected, for there are few left in this world.

[@captainsmirk5582]

Were you in Demolay?

[@peteywheatstraws4909]

@@SpaQueenRocks I thought a portal was a door?

[@Sniper95a]

So you come from a family of murderers

[@ethanaleman]

I love the Kingdom of heaven movie

[@NathanDav42]

God wills it!

[@ryanoliver7829]

Make a video about the history of the hashashin. As far as i know they are the origin of the word assassin, inspiration for the first assassins creed game(along with the knights templar), smoked hashish, and ran their small country, the panama of the middle east, threatening and assassinating kings for a thousand years without problems.

[@kaloarepo288]

A thousand years is a bit of a stretch -I think they were wiped out by the Mongols a few hundred years after this period.

[@kangtheconqueror9545]

I just saw one in my recommended videos. I thought it was Weird History, but I might be thinking that, because I was watching one of their videos at the time.

[@MrSquareNeck]

I heard that the hashassins actually used drugs here and there, but that the autorities were the ones who spread the fact they were drug addicts to defame them (as it was also against religion in the region). The hashassins embraced the junkie reputation, and the masses thought they were nothing but low-life people who would shank you for their next fix. The bad rep was embraced so people would lower their guards when they heard the hashassins were in the region. In reality, they were taking performance enhancing drugs, making them some of the most effective assassins back then. Even today, it’s the common conception that they where trained murderers on drugs, but these dudes actually toppled cities. Their network was organized and it lasted for years until they messed with the wrong dude who then vouched to wipe them.

[@adrianfleming3437]

@@kangtheconqueror9545 might be nutty history.

[@mikedoucette8581]

Great video. Evidence of a separate investigation and exoneration of the Templar was found in the Vatican archives in 2002.

[@michaelinminn]

Please. A link?

[@CappyLarou]

I'm honestly surprised you didn't mention the two men that have been digging up oak Island for the past 15 years. There's television shows all about it

[@dem0nchild610]

Is that the one where is vast wealth buried deep under the island it almost looks like they're digging a reverse pyramid but they can't figure out how they got the water to stop filling up the hole

[@CappyLarou]

@@dem0nchild610 yes

[@kangtheconqueror9545]

@@dem0nchild610 Yea, did they ever figure out how to stop the hole from flooding? Haven't watched it in a couple years.

[@dem0nchild610]

@@kangtheconqueror9545 I don't know I haven't heard anything about it since I was a kid back when the History Channel was still educational

[@datadash8378]

@@kangtheconqueror9545 no…it’s honestly a waste of time they never figured it out and ran out of money.

[@PLuMUK54]

A village not far from my home was once owned by the Knights Templar. Their land was given to the Knights Hospitallers following the suppression of the Templars. Later, it was taken by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and sold.

[@jennifer_m.8613]

Love this narrator. So expressive and entertaining to listen to!

[@schizoidboy]

I know that King Philip IV was called Philip the Fair, but I think it had more to do with his looks rather than his personality.

[@victoriabarclay3556]

It was looks. “ le Bel”. Meaning handsome. Though his images don’t seem to agree

[@gruesometwosome6098]

That's correct my friend 💯

[@actin9294]

Yes, he was the most cruel and ruthless French monarch in history, blatantly tyrannical. Still my favourite medieval monarch though, he left France much stronger than before him.

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Medieval History is the GOAT

[@flicka25]

Actually they ended up in Portugal....King Dinis I created the Order of Christ in 1312 where the remaining knights sought refuge. Don't know about Oak Island though...that one sounds a bit far fetched.

[@TheJoeyboots]

I have read about there also some strong arguments. And the Canadian Indians. Mik'maq

[@stacialsop4534]

I would like to see a show on how the states and/or countries got there official boundaries. Love your channel btw!!

[@HateTheGameTX]

There’s literally a show called “How the States Got Their Shapes”

[@pattycake8272]

Hi. Thank you for this stuff, your the best. Top 10 for sure. Good morning.

[@Weed1990]

Most of them fled to Portugal. There they created a new order called "Order of Christ" or "Ordem de Cristo" in portuguese. Even the cross is the same symbol and the Order still exists today.

[@arcanoflowz]

There were so many different orders of knights, what makes you say MOST went to Portugal? Lol …this is not based in fact although I’m sure several scattered throughout Europe wherever they were accepted, just so long as they were far from the Pope. The Pope had a strong hold in Portugal and Spain, why would they flee there?

[@Weed1990]

@@arcanoflowz Well because after the Templars were abolished on 22 March 1312 by the papal bull, King Denis refused to pursue and persecute the former knights instead he accepted the fugitives and renamed the order to Order of Christ. And evidence of their presence is all over Portugal. Im not saying they all fled to Portugal but a lot of them did.

[@jmal]

"Uphold the Principles of our Order and all that for which we stand. Never share our Secrets or divulge the true Nature of our Work. Do so until Death, whatever the Cost. Together, we, the Knights Templar, will usher in the dawn of a New World. One defined by Purpose and Order. May the Father of Understanding guide us."

[@Mrfigity]

History of humanity is often complex. Im sure there was much charitableness done by the templars but also some shady dark shenanigans…

[@messianic_scam]

there is no good about them they still exist they're the ones who rule the world today

[@MMS661]

padre illuminata gloria en resurrectum ✨✨✨

[@steviegaga]

I went through the York Rite Degrees of Freemasonry, culminating in membership (knighthood) in the Commandery Of Knights Templar to which I belonged. Sadly, the whole of most “speculative” degree conferring bodies are suffering greatly in a decline of membership. But the Degrees were interesting, allegorical places of teaching values.

[@messianic_scam]

values ?!

[@victoriabarclay3556]

Another myth was that Jacques de molay while on the pyre, cursed Philip the 4 off spring for 3 generations and all died within a year

[@darthsilversith667]

That doesn’t make sense.. because one of his offspring was the french princess from Braveheart. Not implying that she ever had anything to do with William Wallace, but she definitely lived on for quite awhile as the Queen of England.. long after Jacques was burned I would think.

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@cadillacdeville5828]

You make everything sound interesting

[@drpepper3838]

We need them now more than ever in Europe

[@sallykohorst8803]

So much of history out there i have never seen. Thanks for that history.

[@marycleary7810]

I read a book contending that Robin Hood was a Knight Templer.

[@robertmoore1472]

He was at the minimum fighting in the crusades

[@michaeldouglas1243]

A video of the illuminati and skull and crossbones would be neat to see. Alot of rumors and speculations surround both

[@stacyrussell460]

I first read the title as 10 Humiliating Facts 😂.

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

[@smol_tankk]

Hey please make a Vedio about wild west outlaws!

[@thesaints-7-andrew.]

Watching from Greece.hi everybody. Interesting video.

[@TheElusiveReality]

make a video about medieval fashion fr fr i wanna see that

[@lefish5277]

I want a Renaissance fashion episode. Have you SEEN those hoochie daddy paned slops!?

[@DogeLlama]

I would love to see a video on general Medical Practices & or Scientific Understandings as they evolved from the early 1400s or so up until now!

[@TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat]

Jesuit Priest hype!

[@michaeldiogenesbest6127]

The Knights Templar are sworn to A Sacred Oath: "I do not Lie, nor Cheat, nor Steal! Nor shall I tolerate those who do." THAT is why the Catholic Church excommunicated, condemned, and persecuted them.........

[@troyphillips9487]

Oh wow such an edgy comment

[@calikush4]

More videos about Tudor history (Henry viii) would be nice

[@JOEFABULOUS.]

He gave his people the Welsh their own bible in their own language

[@themallows2521]

A video about Asia in the Renaissance era

[@chandlerstepina3947]

NOW I know why Oblivions one DLC was called "Knights of the nine" and proceeded to give you armor eerily similar to the templars.

[@The7Reaper]

I like to think they did hide a vast treasure somewhere just waiting to be found like in National Treasure, I'm not holding my breath but it would be cool

[@idaliagonzalez7945]

Love this history

[@jesternario]

I want to hear about all the cool and interesting foods made during Medieval times, because I am sure the restaurant Medieval Times has it fairly incorrect.

[@laurenreeves1748]

Could you do a video on the Byzantium Empire? I feel like all we know about it is it was the place the crusades and pilgrims would pass through on their way to Jerusalem. Thank you for another great video, interesting how the knights templar had their own banking system established throughout such a a vast region of land.

[@btetschner]

7:45 Fascinating Friday the 13th origin story!

[@duskynoir7]

Please make a video about the King of Europe, Charlemagne.

[@garycarpenter6433]

I'd love to hear about the Musketeers and the swiss guard

[@paulfletcher-yi2ji]

Very superfile and so americaian

[@elderhiker7787]

You made it sound as if all of the fleeing Knights all went to Scotland. They didn’t. Many Knights Templar became members of other groups such as the Teutonic Knights and the Knights Hospitalier. And, the brutal Friday the 13th purge happened only in France while other Knights Templar located elsewhere in Europe stayed in place sought to clear their name. And, since they acted as a banking system throughout Europe, they vast wealth that they had on hand just disappeared. Many of their castles remain today and are tourist attractions.

[@Revelian1982]

Shut up, none of what you said was true. Stop acting like some kind of historian. You're probably just some racist, who hates Jews.

[@mbern4530]

In Portugal they weren't even prosecuted. The King just changed their name to the Order of Christ and made himself the head of the order, making the current Portuguese president the technical head of the templars. Hungary was another country that didn't really do much to them and just absorbed them into the army.

[@ruthanneseven]

Rosslyn, near Edinburgh is a virtual monument to Masonry and the Templars. It's hardly a surprise that Scotland and France have close historical ties. They also hid out at Irish Monasteries. Portugal plays a part as well. Have ships, will travel.

[@Revelian1982]

@@ruthanneseven A virtual monument? As in you can only access it online?

[@ruthanneseven]

@@Revelian1982 That's not what I meant to imply. I wouldn't know. Read a book.

[@ActressNikiHart]

“Illuminating” facts …. I see you, nice one.

[@macjack5978]

There's a snowstorm but I'm inside eating mac & cheese and fried chicken and learning about weird history.

[@rustyshackleford6811]

I'm a full battle Templar at renicance fairs.. it's heavy stuff.⚔️

[@Spindrift-id1ez]

This is cool, another KZbin channel full of videos where I can learn about the past, He says as he clicks on Subscribe :)

[@sharond478]

I always thought it was interesting that the boy's version of the Masons was called DeMolays.

[@ianmartinesq]

It’s named after Jacque DeMolay and he is directly by the organization.

[@chaselowe4061]

I was a member as a kid. A buddy’s grandfather convinced a bunch of us to join. Doing the rituals was stupid but we always had fun at Conclaves.

[@ruthanneseven]

There's a female branch as well. Young girls are called 'Rainbow Girls', and the older ladies, including other Masons, form The Order of the Eastern Star.

[@ruthanneseven]

@@chaselowe4061 Likely, you had no idea what they meant. That would make any activity boring and meaningless!

[@ianmartinesq]

@@ruthanneseven Indeed. All true. There is also another girls organization, Job’s Daughters.

[@TheBlindPhotographer]

Yay weird history 😍

[@willemventer3935]

The French king pulled a fast one as he had the pope under his control at the time and did not want to pay back his loans.

[@ZaynInVain]

They are still searching oak island and the shaft and they have actually found more and found stuff that dates back to the 1100s

[@e0ytk]

They are searching and digging more there, yes. They have "claimed" to have findings from the 1100's, but they won't allow experts (who aren't directly affiliated with the island owners) date anything nor were the digs conducted properly to preserve archeology data. On top of that there has been so much actively digging up the island over the centuries its difficult to properly determine anything conclusive at this point, any truth is lost now due to the abundance modern contamination of improper treasure digging. The most likely and plausible explanation for the island is that the under-sea tunnels are natural forming (as they are all over Nova Scotia in places anyways) as well the island seems to have been used as a haven for producing 'pitch' for ship building. There is a whole book, by an actual historian and archeologist, who has dove into Oak Island's more likely, and less thrilling, past.

[@feresmourali5783]

Please make a video about Emma Goldman!

[@alexblakney4860]

I want to see the history of Education. What's the first college? What was the curriculum? How long did students attend? Answers!!!

[@debicadude]

They were kicked out of Jerusalem came back to France and banned the king from credit... Wow no wonder they ended this way

[@radix133]

Why did Columbus have Templar crosses on his ship to the new world?

[@samuelgordino]

Cruz de Cristo order not templar. Small difference.

[@randlewhitney6560]

Through the freemasons I am a knights templar.

[@BabbleOn777]

No, you are not. Not by far.

[@MrSquareNeck]

@@BabbleOn777 i mean “knight templar” is actually a rank in the free masons (even tho they dont dress in armor), meaning that today, its still possible to be referred to as a knight templar if you are a free mason. But you’re right bro. I doubt that Randal from Ohio is a fucking knight templar lmao

[@ruthanneseven]

Yup. My cousin is a Templar. Masonry runs deep in my family.

[@randlewhitney6560]

@@BabbleOn777 I don't like stupid uneducated people. Do your self a favor and take this to heart. Open your mouth and show your stupidity. Keep your mouth shut and show your intelligence.

[@MrSquareNeck]

@@ruthanneseven No your cousin is not a templar, and no masonry doesn’t run deep in your family. Wanna know how I know that? A motherfucking free mason wouldn’t be advertising it. It goes against the tenets. A fucking free mason wouldn’t be watching free mason videos on youtube to tell people in the comments they’re part of it. Shut the fuck up and stop lying to everyone and most of all, to yourself. You are irrelevant, do not try to present yourself as something you are not. That’s the biggest lie one can tell.

[@moawalling2124]

Thank u mr. X. Just a thought experiment. While the conflict between those two sides, for centuries went on, did any third party meanwhile, gain something?

[@greywater3186]

Do the Odd Fellows please

[@trevorslinkard31]

Only a matter of time until you brought up the Oak Island Treasure. I hope you do a full video on it

[@RoamingCaliNews]

Michoacan , mexico , has this cartel called knights templars

[@chuckf3102]

Scotland is founded by the knights Templar the symbol never went away.

[@luispsy2327]

The Military Order of Christ is the former order of Knights Templar as it was reconstituted in Portugal. It was founded in 1319, with the protection of King Diniz (Denis) of Portugal, after the Templars were abolished on 22 March 1312 by the papal bull, Vox in excelso, issued by Pope Clement V. (in Wikipedia)

[@kevinpearce5808]

5:46 "Gift from Elonius Muskus" 🤣 wonder what it was haha 😂

[@btetschner]

Continuing a Weird History memory sequence! Remembering D.A.R.E. related activities*†...while watching this Weird History video! * D.A.R.E. was an organization that was well-known in my hometown. † D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

[@FenhrirRagnarok]

no mention of the order of christ in portugal or the aquisition of chypre ?

[@dipanwitadasgupta5221]

I just feel bad whenever I hear of the persecution of Knights Templars

[@bigmac5252]

I mean they had it coming lmao

[@TheB00tyWarrior]

Why? They were one of the largest banks of the time, controlled the circulation of money, manipulated the Bible of the time, and basically controlled their society.

[@dipanwitadasgupta5221]

@@TheB00tyWarrior would you like to be falsely accused tortured and burned at the stake by a person when the accuser was just the same?

[@actin9294]

@@dipanwitadasgupta5221 I would want to clear myself of my debts and seize the wealth of an obsolete organisation that had lost its original purpose.

[@dipanwitadasgupta5221]

@@actin9294 yes of course then be notorious and die out 🙄

[@PastelBat]

These videos are always fun but I always wish I knew more about your sources so I could learn more if I wanted. Am I just not paying enough attention and/or missing where they are listed? I wouldn't put it past myself to miss that lol

[@lamesbond0077]

Templars were messing with a lot more than Phillips finances at the time

[@lerneanlion]

While the Knights Templar did not deserve what happened to them, I think the actions that King Philip IV took is the only thing he can do. His other option is to abdicate and claim that the debt he made is no longer his problem because his government is no more and judging from his personality, there is no way he is going to do that. He was in the "either you or me" situation. And he did what every person will do whenever he or she noticed they are in such situations.

[@captainsmirk5582]

Or you could just renegotiate.

[@lerneanlion]

@@captainsmirk5582 And how can that happen? Even I see no way out. Heck, the Knight Templars might even raise the interests if things go sour between the two parties.

[@captainsmirk5582]

@@lerneanlion they were always renegotiating terms, people still are constantly

[@lerneanlion]

@@captainsmirk5582 Then I guess it comes down to either the King wanted to keep his image as an absolute ruler or does not wanted to take the risk.

[@captainsmirk5582]

@@lerneanlion in addition to that he may also have been rejected by the order and felt personally slighted.

[@werewolflover8636]

I live very close to several of their structures!

[@garycarpenter2980]

Do a video on the Musketeers and the Swiss guard

[@richardsweat9315]

Their downfall came by loaning money to King Phillip of France and became to powerful for the likes of the Pope. So the two of them struck a deal to rid each other of the Knights Templar and a call for a gathering on a Friday the 13th was the trap that lead to their arrest and execution of not only the Templar leaders, but the knights as well. Unfortunately for the King and Pope, the Templar fleet escaped with a bulk of the treasury to parts unknown....but that is another story.

[@SeXiMoNkEy95]

Awe, our narrator sounds like he has a cold. 😷🤒🤧 Feel better, Dude!

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! ⚔ #WeirdHistory #KnightsTemplar #TheCrusades

[@amandaquezada2854]

Funny that this pops up right after rewatching another episode of Knightfall 😆

[@ShadoeHaze]

05:00 HAHA ... "... Screw-around-and-bought-a-castle money."

[@pamelamays4186]

Suggestion: What was it like to be a medieval serf?

[@ChristmasCrybaby]

They already did it

[@collinkeyser6827]

It Would Have Sucked.

[@coryschulz2177]

Make more videos during the day not just one I love wierd history

[@lucascady4992]

A vow of abstinence, 2 dude's on one horse?! That's why Priest love young Boys?! 🤷

[@huantruonginh2946]

0:09 i find it baffling that no one has adressed the anachronism of the armor in used in this drawing. It seems as if people living in the 1400s had no idea that mail was the most common type of knightly armor used at the battle of Cresson and not full plate as depicted.

[@andreschacon6011]

WE LOVE HISTORY BOIII

[@josephneff2199]

Boiiiii

[@leoleague6053]

Oh yeah. Let’s get into this Weird History.

[@nazfan01]

Do Weird History on people who seemed weird but were not..... or were they?

[@itsgoingdown803]

People of this world just can't seem to comprehend that we are all slaves because we created it this way, humanity as a whole collective got to where we are together and we are the only ones who can change it. The ones in "power" have power because we give it to them free willingly. The world is shlt because we made it shlt.

[@JDWanko]

How about games played during Middle Ages?

[@wellwell4924]

You should Do a video about 5 november

[@izaaksochinski5847]

I’ve heard that they may be active still, and at war with some group of hooded dudes with dangers coming out of their wrist

[@JeffreyChadwell]

I'd like to hear about the legendary kingdom of Prester John.

[@videogamevalley7523]

is there a movie already about this

[@nadas9395]

Oak Island? There is nothing on Oak Island. They call it the money pit for a reason

[@austingraves4364]

Can y'all do the history of the free masons

[@philsophkenny]

❤️

[@houser2094]

04:31 🤣🤣🤣 you really had to say that