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Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of middle ages times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of secret, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. The order of the Knights Templar was founded by Hugh de Payens, a French nobleman from the Champagne region, along with eight of his companions, in Jerusalem around 1119. They originally contains several knights who protected Christian pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land against harm from brigands and Saracen pirates, following the crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099. The order's full name was the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. They were given quarters next to the temple and implemented their distinctive standard - white tunics with an eight-pointed blood-red cross. In 1129 they got monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and pledged themselves prepared to die because of their faith. They were steadily altered into a chivalric order of warrior-monks who fought with difference in the Crusades.
