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Knights Templar

What do you know about medieval knights who fought in the crusades?
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Last updated: October 7, 2021
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1. When were the Knight Templars established?
1400s
1100s
1300s
1200s
2. Where were the Knight Templars headquarters?
Rome
Paris
Marseilles
Jerusalem
3. What was the original purpose of the Knights Templar?
Mercenaries
Protection of trade routes and pilgrims
Protection of the Pope
Private army of the King of France
4. Who created a military order the Knights Templar?
Hugues de Payens
Guillaume de Chartres
Bernard of Clairvaux
Gerard de Ridefort
5. How many relatives and acquaintances founded the Knights Templar order?
25
9
15
12
6. Which temple is referred to in the full name of the Knights Templar?
Solomon's Temple
Zerubbabel's Temple
Temple Church
Herod's Temple
7. Which symbol was typically used as a seal by Knights Templar grand masters?
Square and compasses
The two riders
Jerusalem cross
Maltese cross
8. What event marked the destruction of the last remaining Crusader refuge in the Holy Land?
Siege of Jerusalem
Battle of Pelagonia
Siege of Antioch
Fall of Acre
9. Who ordered the arrest and suppression of the Knights Templar in 1307?
Philip IV of France
Edward I of England
Alfonso IV of Aragon
Albert I of Germany
10. After the fall of Jerusalem in the late 13th century to which island did the Knights Templar withdraw?
Rhodes
Crete
Cyprus
Malta
11. How were the Knights Templar dressed?
Black mantles with white cross
Black mantles with red cross
White mantles with red cross
White mantles with black cross
12. Who was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar?
Thibaud Gaudin
Guillaume de Beaujeu
Jacques de Molay
Thomas Bérard
13. What are the Knights Templar allowed to do?
To gamble
To get drunk
To eat meals together
To swear
14. By the early 1500s the Templars had joined the Knights Hospitallers. What was their name after 1530?
Teutonic Knights
Order of Saint Lazarus
Knights of Malta
Knights of Sicily
15. Which Grand Master of the Knights Templar was beheaded by Saladin in 1189 at the Siege of Acre?
Landry de Lauzon
Godfrey de Saint-Omer
Gérard de Ridefort
Guillaume de Nogaret
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