It was their solely wish to serve the Lord Jesus Christ as well as the faith. In 1117 these men decided to form a group for the proper protection of pilgrims in Jerusalem. They gathered a group of mates spirited by faith. Two very devout men stood at the foundation of the Order of the Knights Templar: Hugues of Payens and Geoffroy de St. Although these orders were at the beginning hostile to each other, they fought together for Christianity. John of Jeruzalem and in part the Teutonic Knights (these two were originally charitable orders) – were leading organizations behind the crusades in the middle east. Knights Templarīefore 1307 the Knights Templar – together with the Knights of St. When the Holy Land was lost to the Saracens in 1291, the Hospitallers moved to Cyprus and then Rhodes. Originally known as the Knights Hospitaller, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta was founded in the 11th century in Jerusalem, where it protected Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Sepulchre. The secret about the Templars would not be if it had not been made to be by circles and powers who had and have an understandable interest – from their point of view – to keep the truth in obscurity.
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