The Templars and Their Sources

Even 700 years after the suppression of the Order of the Temple and the execution of the last grandmaster, Jacques de Molay, there is no shortage of publications on this influential military order. Yet unlike other medieval institutions the Templars are subject to speculative fiction and popular myth which threaten to swamp the fruits of scholarly endeavour. Fortunately, recent years have produced a thriving academic scholarship which is challenging these myths. More and more sources are currently being edited, particularly those for the trial of the Templars (13071312). Others are still awaiting in-depth study, among them, surprisingly, the greater part of the charters that cover more than 150 years of the Orders history.

The papers in this volume step into this gap and critically evaluate new directions in Templar studies on the basis of as-yet unedited source material. Open issues and desiderata regarding the sources are discussed and from a range of inspiring results a new status quaestionis is proposed that will not only provide a better understanding of the Orders archaeological, economical, religious, administrative and military history, but also set new points of departure for the editing of charters and administrative documents. The papers here are grouped into six sections, focusing on the headquarters of the Order, its charters, manpower and finance, religious life and finally the suppression and the Orders afterlife.

Karl Borchardt is working as a Senior Researcher at Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Munich, and teaches Medieval History at Universitt Wrzburg. He has published numerous articles and edited volumes on the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar including Comptes de la commanderie de lHpital de Manosque pour les annes 1283 1290 (2015 with D. Carraz and A. Venturini), Documents concerning Cyprus from the Hospitals Rhodian Archives: 14091459 (2011 with A. Luttrell and E. Schffer) and The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe (2007 with H. Nicholson and N. Jaspert).

Karoline Dring is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt in Munich on the networks of the military orders at the papal curia in the thirteenth century. Her PhD was entitled Trkenkrieg und Medienwandel im 15. Jahrhundert (2013), and she has recently finished another monograph on fictitious correspondences between Ottoman sultans and Christian princes from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

Philippe Josserand is a Senior Researcher in medieval history at the Universit de Nantes. He has published various studies on the Iberian Templars and other Spanish brethren such as glise et pouvoir dans la pninsule Ibrique. Les ordres militaires dans le royaume de Castille (12521369) (2004), and co-edited the reference work Prier et combattre. Dictionnaire europen des ordres militaires au Moyen ge (2009) and lites et ordres militaires au Moyen ge. Rencontre autour dAlain Demurger (2015).

Helen Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. Her publications on the Templars include The Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles (2011), The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (13071314) (2010 with J. Burgtorf and P.F. Crawford) and The Knights Templar: A New History (2001).

Series Editor: Christoph T. Maier
University of Zurich, for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East

This series of Subsidia to the journal Crusades is designed to include publications deriving from the conferences held by the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East along with other volumes associated with the society.

The scope of the series parallels that of the journal itself: Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (10951102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.

Recent titles in the series:

La Papaut et les croisades / The Papacy and the Crusades

Michel Balard

On the Margins of Crusading

Helen J. Nicholson

Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 12041453

Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Mike Carr

Deeds Done Beyond the Sea

Susan B. Edgington and Helen J. Nicholson

Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Simon John and Nicholas Morton

The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century

Norman Housley

The Fifth Crusade in Context

E.J. Mylod, Guy Perry, Thomas W. Smith, and Jan Vandeburie

The Templars and their Sources

Karl Borchardt, Karoline Dring, Philippe Josserand, and Helen Nicholson

Edited by Karl Borchardt, Karoline Dring, Philippe Josserand and Helen Nicholson

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Section I
Headquarters

BENJAMIN Z. KEDAR

JOCHEN BURGTORF

ANTHONY LUTTRELL

Section II
Charters

KARL BORCHARDT

MICHAEL J. PEIXOTO

DAMIEN CARRAZ

PHILIPPE JOSSERAND

KRISTJAN TOOMASPOEG

Section III
Constitution, structure and finance

ALAN FOREY

CHRISTIAN VOGEL

JOHN FRANCE

ALAIN DEMURGER

Section IV
Spiritual character

SIMONETTA CERRINI

JOCHEN SCHENK

ARNO MENTZEL-REUTERS

Section V
Suppression and its consequences

HELEN NICHOLSON AND PHILIP SLAVIN

FRANCESCO TOMMASI

ELENA BELLOMO

Section VI
After-history

KARLHEINZ DIETZ

JOHN WALKER

KAROLINE DRING