History of the Templars

in the palace he had near the Temple; from this came their name, the Templars. The canons Canons: clergy members attached to a specific church—in this case, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre—who lived according to a rule. of the Temple gave them a space near this palace to build their monastic quarters original: "lieux réguliers"; refers to the formal communal buildings required for a religious order, such as a refectory and dormitory.; the king and the lords, the patriarch and the prelates Prelates: high-ranking church officials, such as bishops or abbots. gave them some income from their domains for their food and clothing. Their first promise and the first duty imposed upon them by the patriarch and by the other bishops, for the remission of their sins, was to guard the roads against thieves and marauders original: "partisans"; in this context, it refers to armed raiders or irregular soldiers., primarily for the safety of pilgrims to the Holy Land, against the infidels A historical term used by the author to refer to non-Christians, specifically the Muslim forces in the Levant during the Crusades. in Palestine.

It is evident that the Templars began in quite an obscure manner.

At the end of ten years, they were still—