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A captivating look into the medieval (and modern day) society of the Knights TemplarThe Templar Code is more than an intriguing cipher or a mysterious symbol – it's the Code by which the Knights Templar lived and died, the Code that bound them together in secrecy, and the Code that inspired them to nearly superhuman feats of courage and endurance. If you know a little or a lot about the Templars, read The Da Vinci Code (or saw the movie), or are a Catholic wanting to know the church's official stance on the Templars, you're in the right place.The Templar Code For Dummies reveals the meaning behind the cryptic codes and secret rituals of the medieval brotherhood of warrior monks known as the Knights Templar. With this comprehensive and user-friendly guide, you'll learn: What part the Knights Templar played in the CrusadesHow the Order started as protectors of pilgrimsThe myths of the Holy Grail, and how they're connected to the Knights TemplarHow the Knights Templar rose so high and fell so farHow the fraternity of the Freemasons' modern Order of Knights Templar figures inWhy the Catholic Church didn’t like Dan Brown's version of the Templar storyThe Catholic Church's relationship with women and the connection with the KnightsWhy the Knights Templar still captures our imagination todayWhether the Knights had a real part to play in historic events such as the French Revolution and the American Civil WarYou can learn about all of that and so much more, including sites where the Holy Grail might actually be, what you can’t miss if you’re sightseeing in Templar territory, and potential hiding places of Templar treasures. Get your copy of The Templar Code For Dummies to learn more about the fascinating history of this intriguing group of knights.
Christopher Hodapp is a Freemason who has traveled extensively reporting on the Masonic practices in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere. Alice Von Kannon is a historian and writer, who has worked for many years in the advertising and commercial production business.
Introduction 1About This Book 3Conventions Used in This Book 4What You’re Not to Read 5Foolish Assumptions 5How This Book Is Organized 6Part I: The Knights Templar and the Crusades 6Part II: A Different Kind of Knighthood 6Part III: After the Fall of the Templars 6Part IV: Templars and the Grail 7Part V: Squaring Off: The Church versus the Gospel According to Dan Brown 7Part VI: The Part of Tens 8Icons Used in This Book 8Where to Go from Here 9Part I: The Knights Templar and the Crusades 11Chapter 1: Defining the Templar Code 13Knights, Grails, Codes, Leonardo da Vinci, and How They All Collide 14The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon 16Defining knighthood 17Defining monasticism 19Warrior Monks: Their Purpose 20A vow of nine crusader knights 21Don’t leave home without it: The Templars’ role as international bankers 22Builders 24Templars in Battle 24Betrayed, Excommunicated, and Hunted 25So where’d everybody go? 26The riddle of Templar symbols 26Templars in the 21st Century 28Templars and the Grail quest 28Templars and the fringe 28Chapter 2: A Crash Course in Crusading 31Getting a Handle on the Crusades 32A Snapshot of the 11th Century 33Fealty, fiefs, and feudalism 33Pilgrimage 34Y1K: The end of days 36The Spanish ulcer 37The dilemma of the second son 39Piracy and trade 40The First Crusade: A Cry for Help, a Call to Arms 40Meet the Byzantines 40Go East, young man! 41Peter the Hermit 43Get out the beer, we’re here! 44Forward ho! 45The massacre of Jerusalem 46The founding of Outremer 48Let’s Give It Another Shot: The Second Crusade 49A dynamic new Muslim force 51Jerusalem falls 52The Third Crusade 52The celebrity crusade 54Richard and Saladin 54The Final Curtain 55The Fourth Crusade 55The Fifth Crusade 56The Sixth Crusade 56The Seventh Crusade 56Chapter 3: The Rise of the Knights Templar 59The Perils of Pilgrimage 60Why bother? 61St Helena discovers it all 62Medieval muggers 63Where’d everybody go? 65A New Knighthood 67“The Poor Knights of Christ” 67The Knights Templar 68Keeping their oath 71A Simple Mission Creates a Powerful Institution 71Digging in the temple 71A windfall of money and power 72Bernard of Clairvaux 73The Council of Troyes 74Opposition to the Templars 75The Explosion of the Order 76New gifts 77Eyes of the pope 77International Bankers 78Check, please 79Building boom 80Imitation, the Sincerest Form of Flattery 80The Knights Hospitaller 81The Teutonic Knights 82Livonian Brothers of the Sword 83Up Where the Air Is Thin: The Templars Reach Their Zenith 83Part II: A Different Kind of Knighthood 85Chapter 4: Living in a Templar World 87A Standard Unlike Any Other 87The Templar Rule 88Warriors and monks 90Templar do’s and don’ts 90A Templar day planner 91No women allowed 93The pride and the power 93Punishment and penance 94Who’s in Charge around Here? 94Grand Master 95Master and Commander 95Seneschal 95Turcopolier 96Marshal 96Under-Marshal 96Standard Bearer 96Knight 96Sergeant 97Treasurer 97Draper 97Squires 97Lay Servants 97Chaplain brothers 98The Templar Commandery: Medieval Fortress and City 98City within a city 98The signature round churches 98Symbols of the Templars 100The red cross 100The Beauséant 102Skull and crossbones 103Chapter 5: The Poor Knights Crash and Burn: The Fall of the Templars 105The Seeds of the Fall in the Nature of the Order 106A little independence goes a long way 107Money: The root of all evil 108Huge tracts of land 109Cracks in the Armor 110Getting a little too chummy with the heretics 111Templar bashing: The latest game from the Holy Land 113Playing politics 114A new and deadly enemy: Saladin 115The Treacherous Kingdom of Jerusalem 119Ethics by Borgia, politics by Shakespeare 119The horns of Hattin 121The final curtain 123The last Crusader 124Dark Clouds Converge over France 125King Phillip “The Fair” 125Pope Clement V 127The setup 128October 1307: An unlucky Friday the 13th 129The Accusations 130The Confessions 130The End 131Chapter 6: Cold Case Files: The Evidence against the Templars 133The Chief Accuser 134Opening Move: An Illegal Arrest 136The Charge Sheet 138The caliber of the witnesses 141Dangerous foreign entanglements 141Blowing Away the Charges, One by One 142Desecrating the cross 142Denying the sacrament of the Mass 143Sodomy 144Embezzlement 145Baphomet 146Heads up: So what was it? 148The Pope Knuckles Under 149Secretly Absolved 151Part III: After the Fall of the Templars 153Chapter 7: Templars Survive in Legend and in Fact 155The Templar Fleet 156Sailing up the Seine 156La Rochelle 156So where’d they go? 157Talking Treasure 157Cold, hard cash 158Treasure more mystical than cash? 159The Scottish Legends 160Battle of Bannockburn 161Rosslyn Chapel 162Templars Part Deux: Return of the Living Knights 166Portugal and the Order of Christ 166Spain and the Order of Montesa 167The Hospitallers 167Switzerland 168The Greatest Templar Myths 169Templars possessed the Ark of the Covenant 169A Templar connection to the Shroud of Turin 170Templars discover America! 171The Templars Survived! 176The Larmenius Charter 176The Priory of Sion 179Rex Deus 179Templars spawn the modern-day conspiracy theory 180Chapter 8: “Born in Blood”: Freemasonry and the Templars 183The Masonic Fraternity: Who Freemasons Are and What They Believe 184A quick tour of Masonic history 186The brotherhood code of the lodge 188Identifying the Possible Templar Origins of Freemasonry 189Rosslyn Chapel and the Masons 191The Templars’ sacred subcontractors 194The Masonic Knights Templar and Where They Came From 195Chevalier Ramsay begins a knightly legend 196Freemasonry’s mysterious “Unknown Superiors” 197Templarism in the American colonies 198Templar drill teams: The origins of Masonic Knights Templar military costumes 198Skulls and crossbones! 199The Templars’ place within Freemasonry 200Chapter 9: Modern-Day Templars 203Modern Templar Orders 204Order Militia Crucifera Evangelica 204Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani 206Ordo Novi Templi 207Ordo Militia Templi 209Chivalric Martinist Order 209Order of the Solar Temple 209Ordo Templi Orientis 213Knights But Not Templars 213Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem 213Order of the Grail 214Sovereign Military Order of Malta 214Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem 216Deutscher Orden (Teutonic Knights) 217Order of Christ 217Teetotaling Templars of Temperance 218Templars of Honor and Temperance 218International Order of Good Templars 218Part IV: Templars and the Grail 221Chapter 10: The Templars and the Quest for the Holy Grail 223The Holy Grail: A Ten-Century Quest 224The Quest Begins 225Chrétien de Troyes 225Robert de Boron: The Grail becomes holy 228Perlesvaus 228Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival 229The rest of the story 229The Templars and the Grail 230The Real Grail? 231Chapter 11: The 21st Century Dawns with a New Grail Myth 233Holy Couple: The Search for the Bloodline of Christ 234The biblical account of Mary Magdalene 234The legend 235Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Legend Rediscovered 235The Priory of Sion 237Rennes-le-Château 238The peculiar Pierre Plantard 241The priory exposed 243Was any of it real? 244Part V: Squaring Off: The Church versus the Gospel According to Dan Brown 245Chapter 12: Templars and The Da Vinci Code 247The Secret Societies of Dan Brown 248The Da Vinci Code’s “facts” of the Priory of Sion 249The “Da Vinci” Templars 252Opus Dei 254Leonardo da Vinci and His Last Supper 256John or Mary? 257The “missing” Grail found 258Chapter 13: The Suppression of the “Feminine Divine”: Truth or Feminist Fiction? 261Defining Divine Femininity 262The “lost bride” 263The mysterious Magdalene 265Mary’s Marriage: Pros and Cons 272Pros 273Cons 275Goddess Worship and the Sacred Feminine: Do We Really Want It Back Again? 279The women who worshipped goddesses 279The women who worshipped the male God of Israel 282The Catholic Church’s Relationship with Women 288The real burr in the saddle 289Victorianism 290Facing the future 290Chapter 14: Getting Our Acts Together: Constantine and the Council of Nicaea 291Fiction, History, and the Early Church 292Early Christianity: A secret society 292Dan Brown’s version: Teabing does the talking 294What Boring Old History Books Say 295The Christian conversion of Constantine 295The real Council of Nicaea and what happened there 297“Closing the Canon”: Determining the books of the Bible 300Conflict over celibacy 303Part VI: The Part of Tens 309Chapter 15: Ten Candidates for the Site of the Holy Grail 311Glastonbury Tor, England 311Hawkstone Park (Shropshire, England) 312Takt-i-Taqdis, Iran 313The Santo Caliz (Valencia, Spain) 314Sacro Catino (Genoa, Italy) 314Rosslyn Chapel (Roslin, Scotland) 315Wewelsburg Castle (Buren, Germany) 315Montségur, France 317The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) 318Castle Stalker (Argyll, Scotland) 318Chapter 16: Ten Absolutely Must-See Templar Sites 321Where It All Began: Temple Mount (Jerusalem, Israel) 322Temple Church (London, England) 323Royston Cave (Hertfordshire, England) 325Rosslyn Chapel (Roslin, Scotland) 325Kilmartin Church (Argyll, Scotland) 326Chinon Castle (Chinon, France) 327Templar Villages (Aveyron, France) 328Tomar Castle (Tomar, Portugal) 329Domus Templi — The Spanish Route of the Templars (Aragon, Spain) 330Where It Ended: Îsle de la Cité (Paris, France) 331Chapter 17: Ten Places That May Be Hiding the Templar Treasure 333Rosslyn Chapel (Roslin, Scotland) 333Oak Island Money Pit (Nova Scotia, Canada) 334Temple Bruer (Lincolnshire, England) 334Hertfordshire, England 335Bornholm Island, Denmark 336Rennes-le-Château, France 336Château de Gisors (Normandy, France) 337Switzerland 338Trinity Church (New York City) 338Washington D.C.’s Rosslyn Chapel 339Index 341
