Pragmatic History

and Defense

of the Order of the Templars.

Volume One.

Introduction.

The present history A "pragmatic history" refers to a style of historical writing popular in the 18th century that focused on cause and effect and sought to draw moral or political lessons from the past. concerns the fates of an order of knights Ritterorden: a society of knights, typically religious and military in nature, formed during the Crusades, which arose initially from charity and compassion, and was then elevated by the necessity and needs of the times. It is the history of an order that, powerful through its riches, famous for the bravery of its members, successful in its beginning, and subsequently possessing the respect of its era, was finally overthrown through slander and annihilated by the combined authority of two European powers This refers to the alliance between King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V, who orchestrated the dissolution of the Order in the early 14th century..

Its origin, its great deeds, the famous men who emerged within it, its Grand Master Großmeister: the supreme head of the Order, and finally the share it had in the events of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, deserve the attention of the historian and the philosopher just as much as the history of any other knighthood. The brave deeds of the Templars were known throughout Asia and Europe, and all histor...