What role did new religious orders such as the Knights Templar and the Teutonic Knights play in christianity?
the religious knight orders played a crucial part in trying to keep the christian influence and pilgrims getting to the holy land and jerusalem they also fought the “infidels” and “heretics” who were not followers of christianity so they fought saracens of islam in the middle east or holy land and fought heretics and cathars over various parts of europe and fought against lithuanian pagans in northern europe
