What did the Knights Templar Do?
The Knights Templar were created by the pope to escort and protect “tourists” going to the Holy Land, and to fight Muslims there. There were originally only a handful, but there were thousands by the time they were disbanded in the 1300’s. They were the first bankers. A person could deposit money at one Templar institution, receive a voucher, and turn it in at any other Templar institution. Though charging interest was illiegal at the time, the Templars were permitted to get away with charging a “fee” for the transaction. Some say they were also looking for relics like the holy grail in the holy land, but there is no specific evidence of this. They were given huge amounts of money by royalty in Europe, partly because they were considered to be doing God’s work, and many royal sons became Templar knights. They also made huge loans to kings across Europe. By the time they were disbanded, they had built churches across Europe. Any church in Europe with the word “temple” in the name was pr
