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William was famously biased against the Knights Templar, whom he believed to be arrogant and disrespectful of both secular and ecclesiastical hierarchies, as they were not required to pay tithes and were legally accountable only to the Pope. Although he was writing decades later, he is the earliest author to describe the actual foundation of ...
So both the date of the Templars’ foundation and their original function remain uncertain. Written between 1165 and 1184, Archbishop William of Tyre's history of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem is the most comprehensive account of the kingdom in the twelfth century.
William of Tyre (Latin: Willelmus Tyrensis; c. 1130 – 29 September 1186) was a medieval prelate and chronicler. As archbishop of Tyre, he is sometimes known as William II to distinguish him from his predecessor, William I, the Englishman and former Prior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, who...
The origin of the Templars according to William of Tyre ca 1180. William of Tyre (c. 1130 – 29 September 1186) was a medieval prelate and chronicler. As archbishop of Tyre, he is sometimes known as William II to distinguish him from a predecessor, William of Malines.
Jan 26, 1996 · Medieval Sourcebook: William of Tyre: The Foundation of the Order of Knights Templar. In this same year, [1118] certain noble men of knightly rank, religious men, devoted to God and fearing him, bound themselves to Christ's service in the hands of the Lord Patriarch.
Jan 26, 1996 · Medieval Sourcebook: William of Tyre: History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea. William of Tyre was born in the Holy Land, born in the Holy Land and was, after a French education, appointed Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He wrote towards the end of the twelfth century. Selections from the Historia rerum in partibus ...
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conquered Holy Lands the Order of the Knights Templar was born. In 1118 the Chronicler William of Tyre stated ‘certain noble men of knightly order, devoted to God, pious and God and God-fearing’2, most notably the French nobles Hugh of Paynes and Godfrey of Saint-Omer, gave obedience to the Patriarch of Jerusalem (Warmund of Picquigny,
