92 - Knights Templar pt 1 of 2: License to Kill (Rise of the Pope's Army)

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 112 minutes

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The Knights Templar was founded in 1119 CE on the principles of chastity, obedience and poverty - but they soon, ironically became immensely wealthy and obedient to almost no one but themselves and the Pope. The Templars financed wars, built castles, ran cities, raised armies, and so much more. From meager beginnings they became as mighty an outfit as existed during the later Middle Ages. They were more powerful, wealthier, and better armed than some entire medieval kingdoms. Today, more than seven hundred years after their demise, the Templars remain an object of fascination. And we do our best to begin the telling of their legendary, awe-inspiring tale, today, on Timesuck! Timesuck is also brought to you by the Wild Card Podcast! Check it on iTunes or anywhere you listen to podcastshttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wild-card/id1392652002?mt=2 Timesuck is brought to you today by AmeriGas! Go to MyTimeSuckGrill.com between now and July 4th and enter your name and email to register to win a free Weber Spirt II – E 210 grill ($400 value). Timesuck is brought to you be Leesa! We love Leesa! Get $160 off when you go to Leesa.com/timesuck Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 2500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	The Knights Templar were Holy Soldiers who were uniforms emblazoned with a now famous Red Cross
0:06.5	Similizing both the blood Christ and Shed for mankind and also the blood of mankind that they were more than ready to spill in the Lord's
0:13.5	Service and it's gonna take two full shows to tell their incredible tale welcome to part one
0:18.8	Although the Templars were only one among a host of religious orders that spring up in medieval Europe and in the Holy Land between the 11th and 14th centuries
0:27.0	They became by far the best known the most successful and the most controversial
0:31.8	Their order was a product of the Crusades wars instigated by the medieval church which took aim primarily
0:37.7	Although not exclusively at the Islamic rulers of Palestine
0:41.3	Syria, Asia Minor, Egypt, Northwest Africa, Southern Spain
0:45.9	The word Templars shorthand for the poor knighthood of the temple or less frequently the poor fellow soldiers of Christ and the temple of Jerusalem
0:54.3	advertised their origins at the temple mount in Christianity's holiest city
0:59.2	They were legends in their own lifetimes featured in popular stories artwork ballots
1:03.9	The Templars were founded in 1119 CE on the principles of chastity
1:08.0	obedience and poverty but they soon ironically became immensely wealthy
1:12.7	And obedient to almost no one but themselves in the Pope
1:15.4	They counted amongst their friends and financial supporters kings princes queens countises patriarchs and popes
1:22.4	The Templars financed wars built castles ran cities
1:26.2	ran a whole pretty much nation on point for a brief time raised armies and so much more
1:31.3	From meager beginnings it became as mighty an outfit is existed during the later middle ages
1:36.0	They were more powerful they're wealthier and they were better arms and some entire medieval kingdoms
1:40.5	And really they were for many years kind of a kingdom unto themselves
1:44.1	And today more than 700 years after their demise the Templars remain an object of fascination
1:50.2	imitation of session
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