History Channel: Buried Knights Templar and Portugal

[GunthiHrod]

History Channel
Seven years after the alleged end of the Templars, signs the knights were rising again appear in Portugal. The team investigates a shadowy plan to restart the Templars under a new alias and their tactics as these “Templars 2.0” quietly consolidate power and lay plans to expand around the world.

 

[Afonso de Albuquerque]

Entertaining, but I prefer the Assassin's Creed version, it's more grounded in history.

 

[Lor360]

Cool, a documentary from the american History Channel. Cant wait to learn all about Portugal, ancient aliens and motorcycle repair!

 

[gigau]

Fascinating as it may be, but it belongs in the History Forum.

 

[pithorr]

Port of the Grail, but where is the connection to the Eastern Europe?

 

[Kgw]

Well, most of the Templar Knights in the whole Iberian Peninsula were disbanded, but re-formed under other names. Because Christian kingdoms were fighting the effin' Reconquista and needed all the help they can get.

 

[Klausewitz]

Well, most of the Templar Knights in the whole Iberian Peninsula were disbanded, but re-formed under other names. Because Christian kingdoms were fighting the effin' Reconquista and needed all the help they can get.

Throwing away things that are onerous and you have plenty off is one thing (see France) but to kill the better part of your military might when in life and death conflict with the heathens... that is quite another thing altogether.

 

[Pyoro]

But it's so stupid it practically had to happen in human history. That rarely misses an opportunity to go down the route of the most incomprehensible, monumental blunders for the weirdest reasons ...

 

[Klausewitz]

But it's so stupid it practically had to happen in human history. That rarely misses an opportunity to go down the route of the most incomprehensible, monumental blunders for the weirdest reasons ...

Not really.
For the pope and the French King the choice was absolutely rational:
Lots of debt and fear of being over shadowed by an increasingly independent order of warrior monks.

 

[Kgw]

Understable because there was no war at France, so what could they lose?

In the Peninsula it was a matter of life and death.
For example, in Aragon, when king Alfonso died, he left the kingdom in his will to Templars, Hospitallers and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. But the Aragonese nobility said that they wouldn't have that, so they found a successor. And the orders were "compensated" with castles and money. They need them to keep on fighting.

 

[Graf Zeppelin]

But it's so stupid it practically had to happen in human history. That rarely misses an opportunity to go down the route of the most incomprehensible, monumental blunders for the weirdest reasons ...

You underestimate how powerefull the Templars became and how powerless the French King. Like Klausewitz said it was a very rational decision with cruel results.

 

[Pyoro]

I wasn't referring to the French King; I was referring to saying that the Spanish of course would not have disbanded military forces in the face of an enemy. Doing so is so stupid that someone, at some point of history, has got to have done it (although I can't come up with a good example ^^).

 

[Graf Zeppelin]

I wasn't referring to the French King; I was referring to saying that the Spanish of course would not have disbanded military forces in the face of an enemy. Doing so is so stupid that someone, at some point of history, has got to have done it (although I can't come up with a good example ^^).

Ah, I see. I misunderstood you then.

 

[Antediluvian Monster]

Does this mean there is still some Chivalric Order in Portugal that holds the copyright for Baphomet?

 

[Kgw]

Nah, but you probably can get sued if you use the Order of Christ's emblem.

 

[th3freakie]

I say we ban anyone who posts links to the History Channel in here.

 

[Gil galad]

The North American obsession with the knights templar is rather amusing....

 

[Camara]

Well the Order of Christ is basically the portuguese Templars with a rebrand to make it ok.
They would probably want to conquer the world from ther... oh wait they did.