Topic: Cool show about the Knights Templar is on tonight!

[Jack Morris]

  Tune In: History channel
Wednesday, May 17 @ 8pm ET/PT
 
For nearly two centuries, the Knights Templar were the medieval world's most powerful order, a fearsome and unstoppable Crusader militia. Then came accusations of unspeakable crimes. Who were the Templars, really? How did they become so powerful, so fast, and why did they fall just as quickly? Evidence hints that the Templars excavated under Jerusalem's Temple of Solomon. What did they find there? Was it, as The Da Vinci Code suggests, the true identity of the Holy Grail--the bloodline of Christ? Or an unimaginable treasure, documented in the Dead Sea Scrolls, buried 1,000 years before Christ's birth? We explore the Templar's origin, how they lived, trained, fought and became a medieval world power, and the suspicious circumstances behind their sudden downfall. Plus, we reveal why these warriors, dead for seven centuries, and their treasure still populate Hollywood blockbusters. Narrated by Ed Herrmann and featuring preeminent Templar authors.   TVPG V

 
 

[GDA-S'Cipio]

Who were the Templars, really? How did they become so powerful, so fast,

Because when they began, they were armed protection along an important route that had none.  People wanted that.

and why did they fall just as quickly?

Because they had a lot of money.   Governments wanted that.   

-S'Cipio

[Just plain old Punisher]

They were probably the first international bankers...offering letters of credit, cash loans, deposit services to a variety of Kings/Nobels.