Originally published 09-01-2008 @ 5:03 PM, by Eddie Lark, Paladin,
1057 William the Conqueror grants Scotsman William Saint Clair (a.k.a. Sinclair) the lands of Roslin, Scotland, in perpetuity. Isaac I Comnenus starts the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople.
William the Conqueror grants Scotsman William Saint Clair (a.k.a. Sinclair) the lands of Roslin, Scotland, in perpetuity.
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1065 Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki (a.k.a. Rashi, 1040-1105), Jewish expert on the Bible and the Talmud, founds a school of Kabbala and other esoteric subjects in the Court of Champagne at Troyes [my emphasis], long a haven for Jews and other non-Catholics fleeing persecution. The school lasts over 200 years. As a Jew and a scholar, he was protected from persecution by various Counts in exchange for his exceptional translation abilities, including translating Hebrew into French. Due to his intellect, years of study, and access to ancient texts, Rashi was the foremost expert on the Holy Land in his day. A winemaker by trade, Rashi taught his daughters to read and write in an age when educating women was rare. Rashi's commentary became the world's first dated book printed in Hebrew and was and is, widely distributed among Jewish scholars.
During Rashi's lifetime, Jewish religious scholars believed the Ark of the Covenant and other religious treasure are buried beneath the Shetiyyah (foundation stone) of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem prior to the Babylonian invasion of 587 BC.
Over 1200 arrive on pilgrimage at Jerusalem -- including the Count of Barcelona, the Count of Luxemburg, the Count of Flanders, Bringer-Raymond of Barcelona, William IV de Toulouse, and Gunther, Bishop of Bamberg (Germany).
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1066 Alp Arslän (1029-1072), second Sultan of the Seljuk Turks, unsuccessfully attacks Constantinople, the city of Byzantine Christians who centuries earlier separated from the Catholic Church based in Rome. The Roman Pope expresses support for the victims but does not commit any military resources to help them.
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1070 On February 9, future Templar Hugues de Payns is born in the town of Payns, 10 km from Troyes along the river Seine in France. Wallace-Murphy in Custodians of Truth says de Payns had quite the pedigree: he was a descendant of Mohammed, a cousin of both Bernard of Clairvaux and Count Hugues de Champagne, and a member of the Jesus bloodline as well.
Peter the Hermit serves as a tutor to the young Godfroi de Bouillon (born 1060) as a minor noble connected to Eustace de Boulogne, Godfroi’s father. He later becomes a monk at Orval, home to a mysterious order from Calabria in northern Italy who avidly researched the bloodline of Godfroi's family. (*)
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1076 Pope Gregory VII calls for a crusade against the Seljuk Turks for the closing of Jerusalem but, because of continuing conflicts with both the Byzantine Church and Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, he fails to get enough support to organize a military response. During the Synod at Worms, Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV deposes Pope Gregory VII who in turn excommunicates him. They reconcile in 1077 but split again three years later.
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1079 Castrum Sepulchri (later the principality of Seborga) becomes a principality of the Holy Roman Empire under Emperor Henry IV.
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1088 Urban II (1042-1099) becomes Pope but is kept from Rome by Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and his appointee, Clement III.
Peter the Hermit (1050 - 1115) travels from Jerusalem to meet Pope Urban II. He brings an impassioned plea from Simeon, the Patriarch of Jerusalem for aid and an offer of reconciliation between the Eastern and Western churches.
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1090 Al-Hasan ibn al-Sabbah starts the Order of the Devoted of Assassins, a Shiite Ismaili sect of Islam which will become known simply as the Assassins. A classmate of the Persian poet and scientist Omar Khyyam, he bases the Assassins at the Persian fortress of Alamut. Combining the ideas of a strategic military facility with a resort, he attracts followers to the beautiful and nearly impregnable fortress. The Assassins successfully use strategic murder (assassination, named after them) to gain power, land, and wealth, starting with the Seljuk Turks.
Birth of Bernard de Fontaine (later Bernard de Clairvaux).
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1092 After the assassination of Sultan Malikshah by an Assassin sent by al-Sabbah, the Seljuk Turk empire breaks up into smaller sultanates plus independent principalities of the Atabegs in Syria, upper Mesopotamia and Azarbaijan.
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1093 French King Philippe grants the young Count Hugues de Champagne (1077-1126) his daughter Constance in marriage.
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1099 Jerusalem is repossessed
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1112 Bernard of Champagne & thirty relatives arrive at the gates of the Monastery at Clairveaux.
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1115 Cistercian Abbot Bernard of Fontaine establishes the Abbey of Clairveaux.
--------------------------------------------------------1117 Bernard comes to the Cistercian State and Principality of Seborga in Liguria (Coast of Italy close to Monaco) to join Abbots Gondemar and Rossal (two of the original Knights) whom he had sent for June 1113, in order to protect the "Great Secret" (Bloodline).
--------------------------------------------------------1118 (September) Abbot Edward, Prince of Seborga, ordains the first Templars as Knights of St Bernard and establishes "The Poor Soldiers of Christ" (Paupere Militie Christi).
1118 (November) The knights leave Seborga for Jerusalem.
1119 (May 14) The knights arrive in Jerusalem. King Baldwin II offers them quarters in the former stables of Herod in the Temple of Jerusalem as residence.
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1125 Hugues de Champagne joins Hugues de Payns in Jerusalem.
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1127 Baldwin II seeks for the approbatiion of the Order by the church, therefore the knights travel back to Seborga.
1127 (First Sunday in Advent): The Knights Templar arrive in Seborga. Saint Bernard ordains Hugo de Payns as first Grand Master of the Templar Order in the presence of the people, 23 knights and Friar Gerard de Margues (founder of the Knights of St John) who in 1112 had formed the Knights of Malta. Abbot Edward Prince of Seborga, consecrates the ordination with the sword. That same day a vow of silence was made between Saint Bernard of the Knights and the Great Bishop of the Cathars to safeguard "The Great Secret." (Bloodline)
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1129 (January 13): At the Council of Troyes the Templar Order is established and its independence acknowledged, thereby laying the cornerstone for the success of the Order.
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1130 Tironensian School of Archictecture is founded on Champagne land at Chartres.
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1139 (March 29): Pope Innocent II confirms with his bull Omne date optimum, the independant organization of the Templars.
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1241 The Knights Templar fight successfully against the Moors in Spain and the Holy Land.
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1291 Fall of the crusader city Acre and the end of crusade activities of the Templar Order. Retreat to Cyprus and later to France.
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1305 The Order is accused of heresy, blasphemy and indecency.
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1307 (Friday, October 13th): Nearly all Templars are arrested in France within one day.
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1312 (March 22): At the Council of Vienne (France), Pope Clemens V dissolves the Order under pressure from King Philip IV of France.
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1314 March 18): The last Grand Master Jacques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charney are burned at the stake in Paris.
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Until 1314: 15 out of 23 Grand Masters of the Knights Templars were also Princes of the Cistercian State and Principality of Seborga.
From 1314 until present time: The Templar Order continues to live concealed, appearing under different names throughout the centuries and continues to have a determining influence on occidental culture.
Footnotes:
(*) 1070 - Continued: Hugues de Payns was known as "Hugues the Moor", because of his lineal descent from the Prophet Muhammad, which, of course, indicates that he was not merely a member of the Flanders families, but one of the Desposyni, a descendant of one of the brothers of Jesus.
Thierry Leroy, a French writer, has found documents confirming that Hugues de Paynes was indeed married, but to a lady called Elisabeth, and that the marriage took place sometime between 1108 and 1114. Hugues did father one son, Thibaud de Payns, who was eventually elected abbot of the Monastery of St. Colombe in 1139. The following words were used to describe the new abbot, "Theo de Payns filus primi temple Jeroslymitani." Which translates as "Thibaud de Payns, son of Hugues, first master of the Temple in Jerusalem." Custodians of Truth, Tim Wallace-Murphy & Marilyn Hopkins, 2005
