The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors Audiobook (Free)

“Dan Jones can be an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find severe scholarship very easy to read.” – The Times, Book of the Year

A New York Instances bestseller, this major brand-new history of the knights Templar is “a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading purchase, combining sensible scholarship or grant with narrative swagger’ – Simon Sebag Montefiore, writer of Jerusalem

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Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to create a new order. They are the 1st Knights Templar, a music group of top notch warriors ready to provide their lives to safeguard Christian pilgrims towards the Holy Property. Over the next 2 hundred years, the Templars would end up being the most powerful spiritual order from the medieval world. Their story has motivated fervent speculation since.

With this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story from the Templars for the very first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of the Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in misconception. The Templars had been protected by the pope and sworn to rigorous vows of celibacy. They fought the pushes of Islam in hand-to-hand fight for the sun-baked hillsides where Jesus resided and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from your lands of Islam. Professionals at channeling money across edges, they founded the middle ages world’s largest and most innovative bank network and waged personal wars against anyone who threatened their interests.

Then, as they faced setbacks as a result of the ruthless Mamluk sultan Baybars and had been forced to retreat with their stronghold in Cyprus, a vindictive and cash-strapped King of France set his places on the fortune. His administrators quietly mounted a damning case against the Templars, built on deliberate is situated and false testimony. On Friday Oct 13, 1307, hundreds of brothers had been caught, imprisoned and tortured, and the purchase was disbanded amid lurid accusations of intimate misconduct and heresy. These were tried with the Pope in magic formula proceedings and their last master was brutally tortured and burned in the stake. But had been they heretics or victims of the ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources tobring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own situations, to life inside a book that’s simultaneously authoritative and compulsively readable.