My family, grandparents, owned some land abutting Christ's Convent in Tomar, Portugal. As a young boy, I would walk through the pines to the castle walls and imagine ages gone by. Around the mid 1950's the convent (castle) was used as a military base. An uncle of mine was stationed there.. I got to know his fellow soldiers and, they would let me into the castle. Many, many hours were spent roaming those walls. I even met a ghost or two (lol). Thank you for the magnificent trip back in time.
Portugal one of the most exciting places for the Templars. What they found in the old Phoenician areas helped them rediscover the Americas. Read about the Greek description of Phoenician holdings beyond the Pillars of Heracles. Then the Templars gain control of the coasts of former Phoenician territories with all their tunneling and excavating I believe they found navigational tools. After papal the order that dissolved them the Military Order of Christ was reformed like 7 years later and they got most of the old Templar holdings. They complete the Reconquista and then cross the ocean. Henry the Navigator and his students changed the world.
Kingdom Come (I think that's the name) is an insanely accurate late medieval game. It's first person, which I hate do I've not tried it yet. Assassin's Creed Valhalla is awesome, set in the Viking age around the time of Danelaw.
@Matthew Familia "In my opinion people should be left to do whatever they want" That's just not how the world works in the Middle Ages, raids and counter raids were so frequent that people saw it as an inevitable part of life. The Europeans had suffered Muslim raids for hundreds of years, which only stopped after the Europeans destroyed the last Muslim pirate base in Tunisia in 1087, a mere 8 years before the Crusades. If it weren't for the Crusades, the Europeans may have been raided again during the Crusade years.
@@matthewalexander6792 unless any of you ppl are atheists none of you are worth listening to. Religion is for lost people who seek some fantasy reason to live. Only intelligence challenged persons believe in fairy tales.
I was surprised that you mentioned nothing of the Templars unique banking ability that also gave them power and influence. In fact, I would argue that this financial influence is what ultimately brought them into conflict with France's Phillip and the Pope at their quasi-end.
They did give Phillip time and extensions on his loans in an attempt to get the money from him. However it was because they insisted on him paying back what they owed and the threat of being excommunicated by pope Boniface 4th( I think that was his name) that laid the foundation for the destruction of the knights templar. He also waited until a French Pope was in power before taking action against the order.
store2827131.ecwid.com/The-Battle-of-Jaffa-Mens-Wrap-Around-T-shirt-p150881616 They're goddamn amazing, love sublimated graphic tees, especially when it celebrates the vehemence of Christendom. For the glory of God!
Awesome, I too have become fascinated with this period, to think, people want to read fiction! Thanks for the mention of that first book, I didn't have that yet. Godspeed, Dieu Le Roi.
My dad was an descendant of the first line ( which still has descendants) but the 2nd line ( from Hugh) died out with the martyrdom of Conrad who was only 16 years old and left no heirs. but only the first line from the kings of Jerusalem such as Fauk V are the true line Yes we do still exist, sadly no longer knights though I am a descendant of Baldwin II and FaukV Being a descendant of King Henry II Plantagenet and King Henry I Beauclerc. FaukV was Henry II father Geoffrey Plantagenet father Henry II Mother was The Holy Roman Empress
The mailbox contained my new copy of "Why does the Heathen Rage"! Started reading it a couple of hours after I fetched it out of the mailbox! Very interesting reading! Enjoying the book so far...but I am not far into it...yet! The football game keeps distracting me!
where do you find all this artwork for your videos? i'd love to just scroll through them. Google images just seems to find me the same few dozen or so.
I dont know why but this video’s awesomeness makes me laugh at the absurdity of the portrayal of Templars in some TV series and movies. The latest calamity being the Turkish show Ertugrul, the way the templars are portrayed in that show reaches an astonishing level of nonsense
I’m watching Ertugrul now. I was really upset at first with the portrayal of the Knights Templar until I realize that it would be the Turkish take on it, since it was a Turkish series, that they were the protagonist and the Knights Templar the antagonists. They had to be the heroes and the Knights Templar they evil archenemy. It doesn’t change my beliefs about the Knights Templar, which I was always fascinated about, hence, why I am here watching documentaries on the Knights Templar..
There are profs that the father of The King Afonso Henriques had donate lands near the city of Braga to the Templar’s before the oficial existing of the order...and also there are stories about the numbers of initial member being 11 and not 9...and those +2 Being portuguese...there also a big family and Fraternal connections between Saint Bernard and the King of Portugal...
An idea for a tshirt I would buy for my boys is one with the red cross on the front and maybe a sword and shield that have some words from their mission as stated by st bernard...maybe could be the same t or two different ones
Love your channel, you are informative and relevant! Question though: this show about the crusades you are directing is on a Christian site? Are they going to propagandise the Crusades? Doesn’t really cast the best light on Christianity...
The show is through a Christian platform called ChristianChannel.com. I have full control over the narrative, and it will be strictly historically accurate.
Real Crusades History well that’s really the most important part... I highly respect your expertise in this area, good luck on your venture I’ll definitely watch it!
Montréal is a Crusader castle on the eastern side of the Arabah. The castle was built in 1115 by Baldwin I of Jerusalem during his expedition to the area where he captured Aqaba on the Red Sea in 1116. Originally called 'Krak de Montreal' or 'Mons Regalis', it was named in honor of the king's own contribution to its construction (Mont Royal). Little remains of the original Crusader fortifications. Although it has never been fully excavated, it is known that there was a set of three walls, which partially remain.
Any video I watch, I see an ad for solar panels - are our taxes going to these monstrosities (they are too expensive for people to afford) and the govt is hell bent on convincing people to get them if they wish.
Solar panels are praised ad clean energy but the manufacturing process is anything but environmentally friendly. They're pushing the Great Reset pretty hard these days!
My family, grandparents, owned some land abutting Christ's Convent in Tomar, Portugal. As a young boy, I would walk through the pines to the castle walls and imagine ages gone by. Around the mid 1950's the convent (castle) was used as a military base. An uncle of mine was stationed there.. I got to know his fellow soldiers and, they would let me into the castle. Many, many hours were spent roaming those walls. I even met a ghost or two (lol). Thank you for the magnificent trip back in time.
That is a great story! Thanks for sharing.
Portugal one of the most exciting places for the Templars. What they found in the old Phoenician areas helped them rediscover the Americas. Read about the Greek description of Phoenician holdings beyond the Pillars of Heracles. Then the Templars gain control of the coasts of former Phoenician territories with all their tunneling and excavating I believe they found navigational tools. After papal the order that dissolved them the Military Order of Christ was reformed like 7 years later and they got most of the old Templar holdings. They complete the Reconquista and then cross the ocean. Henry the Navigator and his students changed the world.
Wow, what a fantastic comment. Thank you for sharing. 💕
I would kill for a video game where you play as a crusading knight in a realistic open world setting.
For honor is the closest game I got to playing as a Knight
Kingdom Come (I think that's the name) is an insanely accurate late medieval game. It's first person, which I hate do I've not tried it yet. Assassin's Creed Valhalla is awesome, set in the Viking age around the time of Danelaw.
@@damienmoreno5044 he said realistic
Like the other guy said KCD is pretty realistic, but combat kinda sucks and becomes disgustingly easy after you understand the mechanics
try Mount and blade bannerlord bro
I have discovered an interesting word when reading about the Templars. Malicide: the killing of evil.
@Matthew Familia No, Islam is not a good thing for anyone, it's fake piety is it's most galling characteristic.
@Matthew Familia "In my opinion people should be left to do whatever they want" That's just not how the world works in the Middle Ages, raids and counter raids were so frequent that people saw it as an inevitable part of life. The Europeans had suffered Muslim raids for hundreds of years, which only stopped after the Europeans destroyed the last Muslim pirate base in Tunisia in 1087, a mere 8 years before the Crusades. If it weren't for the Crusades, the Europeans may have been raided again during the Crusade years.
@Matthew Familia Do whatever they want?
Satan's Mantra: Do whatever thou wilt.
Interesting.
@@matthewalexander6792 unless any of you ppl are atheists none of you are worth listening to. Religion is for lost people who seek some fantasy reason to live. Only intelligence challenged persons believe in fairy tales.
@@matthewalexander6792 people who speak true often speak with conviction. matthew familia speaks the truth
One of the docs about templars which actually talks about the strong and important relationship with Portugal , love it
I think any documentary discussing the early career of the Templars needs to mention Portugal. Portugal was very important in early Templar history.
@@RealCrusadesHistory I thought Knights of Santiago would be important to Portugal? Still learning about Crusader history all of it interesting.
@@RealCrusadesHistoryearly history? It’s also where they went after France tried to have them killed off. Military Order of Christ.
This channel is an amazing place to find true history. My english is bad, but your content really worths all my effort to understand it.
From being a musician to a narrator to a writer or even a historian J Stephens is a professional at many things. Too 200k Subs we go!
thanks Daniel!
@@RealCrusadesHistory why are you removing comments? What is the problem?
@@RealCrusadesHistory your the man ive been along for the ride for a awhile. Love the content brother!
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Excellent...simply excellent historical presentation, and wonderful, insightful commentary. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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This is an instant classic. I love it! Thank you
Thank you for this.!!
I was surprised that you mentioned nothing of the Templars unique banking ability that also gave them power and influence. In fact, I would argue that this financial influence is what ultimately brought them into conflict with France's Phillip and the Pope at their quasi-end.
He also didn’t mention the temple of Solomon
They did give Phillip time and extensions on his loans in an attempt to get the money from him. However it was because they insisted on him paying back what they owed and the threat of being excommunicated by pope Boniface 4th( I think that was his name) that laid the foundation for the destruction of the knights templar. He also waited until a French Pope was in power before taking action against the order.
@@V2011Fyeah, he lived so much longer than the order he tried to extinguish. He and the pope both.
I love being able to watch videos about the history of the knights templars. There History is an amazing story
I just received my Battle of Jaffa tee shirt!❤❤❤❤
I absolutely love it 😍
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They're goddamn amazing, love sublimated graphic tees, especially when it celebrates the vehemence of Christendom. For the glory of God!
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Thankyou for your Time And Energy God Bless You 💎
Same to you!
Without doubt the best channel for Crusader knowledge, history & insight into that fascinating era 🏴 .. thank you 🙏
Awesome, I too have become fascinated with this period, to think, people want to read fiction! Thanks for the mention of that first book, I didn't have that yet. Godspeed, Dieu Le Roi.
Yes, I find the real history more interesting than fiction
Truly great Christians and men.
Well...not ALL of them...some were pretty messed up...but some were also just fine and didn't just brutally murder people that weren't even fighting
Well, not ALL of them, some were pretty messed up...but some were fine and didn't brutally kill people that weren't even fighting
most were common terrorists (by modern definition) but yea there was some sense of honor to these men but merely zealots at the end of the day
Christains had balls back then :v
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one
My dad was an descendant of the first line ( which still has descendants) but the 2nd line ( from Hugh) died out with the martyrdom of Conrad who was only 16 years old and left no heirs. but only the first line from the kings of Jerusalem such as Fauk V are the true line
Yes we do still exist, sadly no longer knights though
I am a descendant of Baldwin II and FaukV
Being a descendant of King Henry II Plantagenet and King Henry I Beauclerc.
FaukV was Henry II father Geoffrey Plantagenet father
Henry II Mother was The Holy Roman Empress
I am glad to have found you the lord guided me to you
The mailbox contained my new copy of "Why does the Heathen Rage"! Started reading it a couple of hours after I fetched it out of the mailbox! Very interesting reading! Enjoying the book so far...but I am not far into it...yet! The football game keeps distracting me!
BEST HISTORY CLASS EVER 🌹
Love these!
Awesome channel so glad I saw that picture of the Hospital Ship in NYC Harbor!
I got here clicking on the like button!!!
Thank you.
Well done 👍 😊
where do you find all this artwork for your videos? i'd love to just scroll through them. Google images just seems to find me the same few dozen or so.
Check the links in the description.
Thanks for sharing the link
Love your content!
Could you please make a video about the Knights Templar and there supposed ties to the Occult were the allegations true or not.
I dont know why but this video’s awesomeness makes me laugh at the absurdity of the portrayal of Templars in some TV series and movies. The latest calamity being the Turkish show Ertugrul, the way the templars are portrayed in that show reaches an astonishing level of nonsense
I’m watching Ertugrul now. I was really upset at first with the portrayal of the Knights Templar until I realize that it would be the Turkish take on it, since it was a Turkish series, that they were the protagonist and the Knights Templar the antagonists. They had to be the heroes and the Knights Templar they evil archenemy. It doesn’t change my beliefs about the Knights Templar, which I was always fascinated about, hence, why I am here watching documentaries on the Knights Templar..
There are profs that the father of The King Afonso Henriques had donate lands near the city of Braga to the Templar’s before the oficial existing of the order...and also there are stories about the numbers of initial member being 11 and not 9...and those +2 Being portuguese...there also a big family and Fraternal connections between Saint Bernard and the King of Portugal...
Afonso was Bernard’s nephew.
He also grew up on the same lands he would later give to the Templars.
Very interesting.
Gondomar was portuguese or lived in Portugal in a place near Oporto called ...Gondomar...
I've looked around your channel and couldn't find a video on Templar Knights having tattoos. Do you think you could do a video on that topic?
Where is the bit when they fight the rabbit guarding the cave?
Or where they throw the dead chickens over the castle wall?
An idea for a tshirt I would buy for my boys is one with the red cross on the front and maybe a sword and shield that have some words from their mission as stated by st bernard...maybe could be the same t or two different ones
thank you...
Nice
Where can I read the full account of that Russian monk?
14:25 Guimarães
That’s where I live!
Afonso Henriques first capital
Love your channel, you are informative and relevant!
Question though: this show about the crusades you are directing is on a Christian site? Are they going to propagandise the Crusades? Doesn’t really cast the best light on Christianity...
The show is through a Christian platform called ChristianChannel.com. I have full control over the narrative, and it will be strictly historically accurate.
Real Crusades History well that’s really the most important part... I highly respect your expertise in this area, good luck on your venture I’ll definitely watch it!
Baldwin did not start Knights Templer
wait there was a city named montreal in the kingdom?
Montréal is a Crusader castle on the eastern side of the Arabah. The castle was built in 1115 by Baldwin I of Jerusalem during his expedition to the area where he captured Aqaba on the Red Sea in 1116. Originally called 'Krak de Montreal' or 'Mons Regalis', it was named in honor of the king's own contribution to its construction (Mont Royal). Little remains of the original Crusader fortifications. Although it has never been fully excavated, it is known that there was a set of three walls, which partially remain.
Yes it’s French
This video is Awesome 💯 thanks for the true history .... HeLp SaVe SouLs 🙏🏻✝️🕊️👑🛐⚖️
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Thanks God. Hope modern Christain men will follow their path, fighting and sacrificing themselves for Christ and His Kingdom.
Militant Christianity needs a revival.
🛡🗡
Remember fidelity
Any video I watch, I see an ad for solar panels - are our taxes going to these monstrosities (they are too expensive for people to afford) and the govt is hell bent on convincing people to get them if they wish.
Solar panels are praised ad clean energy but the manufacturing process is anything but environmentally friendly. They're pushing the Great Reset pretty hard these days!
Who started Nights Templer?
Hugh de Payens the founder of first Grand Master of the Templars.
They Jesuits are modern day Templar Knights, both are Babylonian. If you don't know Gematria then you are asleep at the wheel.
I saw at. my dream Grand Master ,sleeping,ALPHONSO
Finnish flags at 15:21 soooo... using logic = I was there and I am a Knight Templar
also a great video! :thumbup:
😆. Good one!!! The blue cross on white screen was the flag of the Kingdom of Portugal in the Middle Ages.
very good
Thank you! Cheers!
he skipped some stuff but that's fine
205 BMF
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Baldwin.
Tutions
Funny all these people scared of wendigo the skin Walker a knight templar would put knots on his or her head lol 💯💢
Knights Templar were Redoubtable