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Knights Templar (1119 - 1312)

Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar Authority - medieval
Relevant locations: Residence at Europe
References in Documents:
MS The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) 4 Scutum fere triangulare, quo equites templi erant muniti. An almost triangular shield, with which the Knights Templar were armed.
British Curiosities in Nature and Art (1713)

The Ancient Monuments of Kings and great Personages, as of Alfred at Driffield, Etheldred at Winburn, Harold at Waltham-Abby; Edward the Confessor, Sebert, and many other Kings of England at Westminster; King John’s at Worcester; Duke Humphrey’s at St. Albans; the Knights Templars at the Temple, Venerable Bede at Durham, &c. You will also find notice taken of the most Beautiful Churches, as St. Paul’s, Westminster, Canterbury, Salisbury, York, Lincoln, Bristol, Wells, Gloucester, Wrexham, Sherburn and others; and also the Altitude of the most remarkable Steeples, &c. in England; as Salisbury, St. Paul’s Dome, Coventry Steeple, Boston, Grantham, Bow, and the Monument in Fish-street, London, &c. And the stately and most observable Bridges, as London, Rochester, Burton, Owsley, Bristol, Huntington, Crowland, &c. together with the Beautiful and Spacious Market Cross at Coventry, and the Chapels and Houses cut in Rocks.