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1118 |
 The Knights Templar were founded to
protect pilgrim routes in the Holy Land by Hugh de Payens
in the reign of Baldwin II who granted quarters in Jerusalem on the site of the Temple of
Solomon; hence the name Knights of the Temple.
The secular overlord was the Count of
Champagne with spiritual leadership given by St. Bernard
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1129
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Council of Troyes under the guidance of St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
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1147
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 Use
of the Red Cross of the Order initiated.
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1154
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 Sovereign authority of the Grand Master recognised by Louis VII of France
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1291
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With the fall of Acre the Templars found themselves distanced from the Holy Land and lacking
raison d'être.
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1307
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Following false charges the Order is
dissolved by Papal decree and subjected to a cruel
persecution but not in Scotland where Templars fleeing
France found refuge under an excommunicated King Robert
the Bruce. |
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1314
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 Knights Templar,
it is alleged, fight
with Bruce at
Bannockburn on 24th June. William de St Clair
who fought there is buried at Rosslyn Chapel in the
style of Master of the Temple.
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1689
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July 27th, John Graham of Claverhouse, died at the battle of Killiecrankie wearing the Grand Cross of the Order.
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1705
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General Statutes and
Election Charter.
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1745
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 Prince Charles Edward Stewart, himself a senior Templar gives a soiree for the Chivalry of the Order in Edinburgh.
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1810
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Alexander Deuchar becomes Master of Militi Templi Scotia and the heritor of the Stuart line of the Temple, an office he was to hold until 1835.
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1853
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Napoleon III acknowledges the Order as a Sovereign Power and Grants the right to carry decorations on French territory
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1995
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Representatives of the Grand Priories of Germany and Austria are granted an audience with His Holiness the Pope.
Major International Conclaves in London and Salzburg with Scotland represented produce a full democratic re-structuring of Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani ready for service in the 21st century.
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