A Brief History of the Knights Templar in France, Episode 333
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Knights Templar have a romanticized and exotic imagery attached to them. But reality is different from the lore that surrounds them. Annie Sargent and Elyse Rivin talk about it in this episode of the podcast.
The movie by Ridley Scott The Kingdom of Heaven is a great example of a romanticized version of the Knights Templar. But is is based on real people and things could have happened the way he showed it in this excellent movie. The events happened so long ago we have to fill in a lot of stories. What is for sure is that Knights Templar were a reflection of their times and what was happening in French culture at the time. Let's talk about their amazing rise and precipitous fall.
This episode features my frequent guest Elyse Rivin. You can book a tour with her through her website and you can also support her on Patreon.
Discussed in this episode:
- Who Were the Knights Templar in Reality?
- A Brief Recap of the History of the Knights Templar
- The Knights Templars Were Warriors First
- Les Commanderies in France
- The Downfall of the Knights Templar
Full show notes for this episode are here: https://joinusinfrance.com/333
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Join Us in France episode 333. |
| 0:04.0 | Trois Saint-Tron to Trois. |
| 0:07.0 | Bonjou, I'm Annie Sergeant, and join us in France is the podcast where we look around France |
| 0:12.0 | so you can connect to France as a destination. |
| 0:15.2 | Connect with its culture, history, gastronomy and everything it takes to have a meaningful |
| 0:20.6 | experience in France. Today you can bring out your sword and shield. |
| 0:25.4 | Elise and I talk about the Knights Templar and we hope to bring some clarity to this |
| 0:31.2 | sulfurous topic. If you like what we do here at |
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| 0:43.2 | slash boutique where you'll see purchase links for my cookbook |
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| 0:59.2 | Join us in France.com slash newsletter and I'll post illustrations of the knights on my |
| 1:05.4 | Instagram account at Addicted to France The The We are talking about the night's temper. |
| 1:39.0 | We are talking about the night's Templar today. How exciting. Yes, it's exciting. It's exciting because |
| 1:50.1 | it's something that has a certain I think in in our times it has a certain sort of |
| 1:57.6 | romantic exotic imagery attached to it you know know, movies, books, you know, stories like that. |
| 2:05.8 | But the reality of it was a little bit different. |
| 2:10.9 | In fact, I had been thinking the other day that what I was going to say to you was, |
| 2:14.6 | Annie, you and I are really glad we weren't around in those days. I think so, you know, really, |
| 2:20.9 | really, really not. |
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