Knights Templars
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An order of knights so called from having their first residence in some apartments adjoining the ity of pilgrims in the Holy Land. They came into England in the reign of Stephen, where they increased so much in wealth and power that they were considered dangerous to the state, and the order was suppressed in 1312.