The Knights Templar had actually been mythologised in popular culture as early as the 13th century in the Grail epic Parzival by German knight and poet Wolfram von Eschenbach.

Intriguingly, the first arrests of the Knights Templar occurred on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307, per GQ, which is perhaps one of the reasons many people associate Friday the 13th with bad luck.

The Knights Templar began in 1120 as a band of modest monks who took up arms to protect pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. "The Knights Templar were conspicuously brave," Griffith-Jones said.

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The other major strand of latter-day Templarism in the UK is within the Freemason fraternity. The organisation says it has 30,000 Knights Templar members among its 250,000 Freemasons in England and ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 11.--Knights Templar arrive on every train to attend the grand conference which commences in this city to-morrow. It is expected that fully 500 delegates will be present.