Jacques de Molay
Bad Gays11 Maalis 2025

Jacques de Molay

Today’s subject, Jacques de Molay, was the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, or to give them their full title, the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. Ever since their dissolution, the Knights Templar have been associated with all sorts of apparent manifestations - of occultism, of shadowy transnational powerbrokers, as the Guardians of the Holy Grail or whatnot. Today we’re going to steer away from these fantastical theories, because the reality of the Templars is far more interesting.

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SOURCES:

Michael Barber, A New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

Dan Jones, Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Land (New York: Viking, 2019)

Dan Jones, The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (New York: Viking, 2007)

Amin Maalouf, The Crusades through Arab Eyes (New York: Schocken Books, 1984)

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